Bug 102384

Summary: corruption/glitch on right click contextual menu, drop down menus with glamor in kwin
Product: xorg Reporter: Barto <mister.freeman>
Component: Driver/RadeonAssignee: xf86-video-ati maintainers <xorg-driver-ati>
Status: RESOLVED MOVED QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)   
OS: Linux (All)   
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Description Barto 2017-08-24 05:53:15 UTC 
Created attachment 133735 [details]
xorg log

Hello,

I have a radeon HD4650 Pcie ( chipset RV730 pro ), I use archlinux 64 bits, xf86-video-ati 1:7.9.0-2,

as desktop I use plasma 5 ( kde ), opengGL2 is enabled in kwin for desktop effects,

DRI 3 and glamour are enabled, tearfree is "off", and I have set vsync in kwin to "automatic", I see no tearing, all is ok in videos and 3D games,

my radeon conf file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/

Section "Device"
    Identifier "Radeon"
    Driver "radeon"
    Option "TearFree" "off"
    Option "DRI" "3"
    Option "AccelMethod" "glamor"
EndSection

my problem : I notice sometimes glitchs, corruption when I do a righ-click ( contextual menu ) and when I use "dropdown menu" ( in dolphin, firefox ), the problem occurs randomly and not often ( 10% of chance to trigger the bug when I do a right click for the contextual menu ),

when the bug occurs I see in the contextual menu a mix of displays ( for example if dolphin is in the background and firefox on top then in the contextual menu I can see a mix of Dolphin/firefox screens, all is mixed together, and sometimes colors blink inside the contextual menu )

if I retry then the bug disapears immediatly and the contextual menu is correctly displayed,

it's a random bug, sometimes this bug will not occur for 2 hours, and when the bugs occurs it will disapear quickly if I re-click with the mouse,

is it a known bug when dri3 and glamour are enabled in kwin/plasma 5 ?

thanks
Comment 1 Barto 2017-08-24 05:59:06 UTC 
Created attachment 133736 [details]
glxinfo

glxinfo output
Comment 2 Barto 2017-08-26 03:31:26 UTC 
Created attachment 133804 [details]
photo of the problem

here is a photo of the problem, we can see that the contextual menu shows a mix of 2 displays : dolphin + VLC
Comment 3 Barto 2017-08-26 03:38:28 UTC 
Created attachment 133805 [details]
a video of the problem

here is a video file which shows the problem, a mix of 2 displays in the contextual menu, and the contextual menu blinks when the problem occurs
Comment 4 Michel Dänzer 2017-08-26 05:01:40 UTC 
Does it also happen with:

 Option "AccelMethod" "glamor"
 Option "DRI" "2"

or

 Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
 Option "DRI" "3"

?
Comment 5 Barto 2017-08-26 07:12:11 UTC 
Hello,

the problem occurs also with this setting :

 Option "AccelMethod" "glamor"
 Option "DRI" "2"

but with this another setting I don't have the bug :

 Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
 Option "DRI" "3"

so it seems that the culprit could be the "glamor" feature, when it is enabled then the bug is triggered
Comment 6 Michel Dänzer 2017-08-28 09:48:07 UTC 
Thanks for narrowing it down.

This could be a Mesa r600 driver issue. Can anyone reproduce this with radeonsi? I can't seem to.
Comment 7 Barto 2017-08-28 10:56:16 UTC 
Hello,

I have only a radeon HD4650 Pcie, so I can not test with radeonsi driver ( I assume that radeonsi works only with amd card HD7xxx series and newer )
Comment 8 Barto 2017-09-20 17:56:47 UTC 
Any progress about the resolution of this bug ?

I can make tests if you have a test patch,

is it safe to stay with "DRI3 + EXA" setting ?

in "man radeon" I can read this :

"Note: DRI3 may not work correctly in all cases with EXA, enable at your own risk."
Comment 9 Barto 2017-09-21 18:44:40 UTC 
I made a discovery :

- if I use the "modesetting" driver with glamor ( instead of using xf86-video-ati ), then all is ok, even if DRI 3 and glamor are actived,

I use this conf file :

Section "Device"
    Identifier "Radeon"
    Driver "modesetting"
    Option "TearFree" "off"
    Option "DRI" "3"
    Option "AccelMethod" "glamor"
EndSection

with "modesetting" driver the info "dri 3" doesn't appear on Xorg.log but dri 3 is used if I check in glxinfo ( with LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose ) :

$ LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo | grep libgl
libGL: pci id for fd 4: 1002:9498, driver r600
libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/tls/r600_dri.so
libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/r600_dri.so
ATTENTION: default value of option vblank_mode overridden by environment.
libGL: Using DRI3 for screen 0
    GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_libglvnd, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap,

so it seems that the problem could be located in xf86-video-ati driver, the DDX xorg modesetting driver doesn't have this problem
Comment 10 Martin Peres 2019-11-19 08:00:54 UTC 
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