Bug 20784 - Display corruption with dual card setup (Radeon HD4670 and GeForce 8400GS)
Summary: Display corruption with dual card setup (Radeon HD4670 and GeForce 8400GS)
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: xorg
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Driver/radeonhd (show other bugs)
Version: git
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
: medium major
Assignee: Luc Verhaegen
QA Contact: Xorg Project Team
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Reported: 2009-03-20 18:48 UTC by ciutazza
Modified: 2011-11-07 15:20 UTC (History)
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Attachments
Xorg log file (48.34 KB, text/plain)
2009-03-20 18:49 UTC, ciutazza
no flags Details
xorg.conf (16.91 KB, text/plain)
2009-03-20 18:50 UTC, ciutazza
no flags Details
camera picture of corruption (35.95 KB, image/jpeg)
2009-03-20 18:52 UTC, ciutazza
no flags Details

Description ciutazza 2009-03-20 18:48:46 UTC
I've recently added in a GeForce 8400GS in my system with an existing Radeon HD4670.  Before adding in the GeForce 8400GS, everything was fine.... and now there are vertical stripes.  The xf86-video-ati driver does not exhibit this corruption.

The display attached to the GeForce shows no corruption.

I am attaching my xorg.conf (pardon the mess) and the log file.  I am also attaching a picture taken with my digital camera of the display.
Comment 1 ciutazza 2009-03-20 18:49:27 UTC
Created attachment 24108 [details]
Xorg log file
Comment 2 ciutazza 2009-03-20 18:50:01 UTC
Created attachment 24109 [details]
xorg.conf
Comment 3 ciutazza 2009-03-20 18:52:42 UTC
Created attachment 24110 [details]
camera picture of corruption
Comment 4 SEanS 2009-03-22 06:55:13 UTC
Sorry to say but my two MSI 4870 cards machine can run a i386 OS X-window
but not a amd64 OS.Even the older 1.2.3 version driver seem to display but
will not allow me to add or open a window or to close down correctly under
the amd64 OS.

Is this the terminal driver or the windowing OS?
( Hint The AMD64 was working under the 1.2.3 version, but no more. Every
thing has been up and down dated till I am sick of it all.)

Rgds SEanS
.

.

2009/3/21 <bugzilla-daemon@freedesktop.org>

> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20784
>
>           Summary: Display corruption with dual card setup (Radeon HD4670
>                    and GeForce 8400GS)
>           Product: xorg
>           Version: git
>          Platform: x86-64 (AMD64)
>        OS/Version: Linux (All)
>            Status: NEW
>          Severity: major
>          Priority: medium
>         Component: Driver/radeonhd
>        AssignedTo: lverhaegen@suse.de
>        ReportedBy: ciutazza@gmail.com
>         QAContact: xorg-team@lists.x.org
>
>
> I've recently added in a GeForce 8400GS in my system with an existing
> Radeon
> HD4670.  Before adding in the GeForce 8400GS, everything was fine.... and
> now
> there are vertical stripes.  The xf86-video-ati driver does not exhibit
> this
> corruption.
>
> The display attached to the GeForce shows no corruption.
>
> I am attaching my xorg.conf (pardon the mess) and the log file.  I am also
> attaching a picture taken with my digital camera of the display.
>
>
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Comment 5 Matthias Hopf 2009-03-25 07:18:14 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> Sorry to say but my two MSI 4870 cards machine can run a i386 OS X-window
> but not a amd64 OS.Even the older 1.2.3 version driver seem to display but
> will not allow me to add or open a window or to close down correctly under
> the amd64 OS.

It's the first time I hear that there are issues with x86_64 - and this is unrelated. So please open a different bug about this.
Comment 6 Matthias Hopf 2009-03-25 07:20:51 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> I've recently added in a GeForce 8400GS in my system with an existing Radeon
> HD4670.  Before adding in the GeForce 8400GS, everything was fine.... and now
> there are vertical stripes.  The xf86-video-ati driver does not exhibit this
> corruption.

Sounds like a posting problem, Egbert has some ideas about it.

Can you verify whether this issue goes away if you swap the two cards and/or change the primary card in the BIOS (if you can select anything there)?

Comment 7 ciutazza 2009-03-25 20:35:09 UTC
(In reply to comment #6)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> > I've recently added in a GeForce 8400GS in my system with an existing Radeon
> > HD4670.  Before adding in the GeForce 8400GS, everything was fine.... and now
> > there are vertical stripes.  The xf86-video-ati driver does not exhibit this
> > corruption.
> 
> Sounds like a posting problem, Egbert has some ideas about it.
> 
> Can you verify whether this issue goes away if you swap the two cards and/or
> change the primary card in the BIOS (if you can select anything there)?
> 
I can't physically swap the cards, since the HD4670 is a PCI-E card and the 8400GS is a PCI card.  (This was my fault, I forgot to mention this.)  I don't want to end up as a computer stupidity story.  (I only have one PCI-E x16 slot on this motherboard.)

I did attempt to switch which got initialized first in the BIOS, but that did not help matters one bit.
Comment 8 ciutazza 2009-03-25 20:43:27 UTC
I took a closer look at how my display was corrupted, and probably a better description is like the entire display was stretched over a larger area, and the vertical stripes are like stretch marks on a pregnant woman.  It's like, there will be vertical areas where everything looks okay, and as I mouse horizontally, you see can see the stripes where things are corrupted.  Also, when X starts up, the X cursor is off center even though I didn't move my mouse one iota.
Comment 9 ciutazza 2009-03-25 20:46:56 UTC
Oh, one last thing.... I just got my x86 Gentoo installation updated to the point where I can compile the the driver (took 2 days to get everything compiled), and it's exhibiting the exact same corruption, so this is not limited to AMD64.

Comment 10 Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia 2011-10-16 16:00:35 UTC
Does this issue occur with the preferred ati driver (xf86-vide-ati)?  If so, please move this to the Driver/Radeon component.  

Development of radeonhd has pretty much halted and development focus is on the ati driver.  Please see http://www.x.org/wiki/radeonhd

If the issue does not exist in the ati driver (or if there is no response to this message), this bug will be closed as WONTFIX unless someone contributes a patch.
Comment 11 Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia 2011-11-07 15:20:55 UTC
Closing due to lack of response.  Please reopen and move to the Driver/Radeon 
component if this issue persists with xf86-video-ati


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