Bug 22684

Summary: Repaint problem with KDE 4.3, Qt 4.5.2, and Compositing
Product: xorg Reporter: Darin McBride <Tanktalus>
Component: Driver/RadeonAssignee: xf86-video-ati maintainers <xorg-driver-ati>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium CC: rasasi78
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)   
OS: Linux (All)   
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Description Darin McBride 2009-07-09 09:55:55 UTC 
After running with compositing on with KDE 4.3 (4.2.95 = rc1) and Qt 4.5.2 for a while, the whole screen has problems repainting.  That is, the whole screen goes black and starts repainting what seems like from the bottom of the z-order on up, with enough of a delay between them for me to notice (still taking less than a tenth of a second to run to completion, though).  What's worse is that it doesn't really complete - it leaves portions of the screen unfinished: either it's still black, or it has something from lower in the z-order painted there (perhaps only partially itself).  And then it starts the whole thing over again less than half a second later.

Turning off compositing stops this madness immediately.

I'm not sure if this is driver, xorg, Qt, or KDE, or maybe something else, but I thought I'd start here.

Radeon 3870HD, xorg-server 1.6.2, mesa 7.4.4, xf86-video-ati from git.
Comment 1 Alex Deucher 2009-07-09 09:58:15 UTC 
Can you attach your xorg log and config and a screenshot of the problem?
Comment 2 Darin McBride 2009-07-13 10:35:51 UTC 
Created attachment 27630 [details]
xorg log file

Here's the Xorg log file.  However, I can't get a screen shot - every time I run ksnapshot and tell it to take a snap shot, the whole screen gets painted properly and stays that way until after the snapshot is taken, no matter what the delay is.  I'll have to grab a digital camera and take a picture of the monitors, if that'll help.
Comment 3 Raúl 2010-04-20 10:04:12 UTC 
Hi Darin:

If you could still reproduce it, would you be able to get a screenshot? Getting it with a camera would be meaningful as well.

Thanks.
Comment 4 Darin McBride 2010-04-20 14:36:11 UTC 
After upgrading to xorg-server 1.7, and again now with 1.8, I'm no longer experiencing this problem.  (And now I'm on KDE 4.4, Qt 4.6.2, Mesa 7.8.1, too.)

I get a similar problem with only one window at a time, usually a konsole window, where it fails to repaint, and I see only whatever is behind it, and then typing something gets most of it back immediately.  Not sure if it's related, but it definitely is not the full blown problem I had before.
Comment 5 Adam Jackson 2018-06-12 19:06:48 UTC 
Mass closure: This bug has been untouched for more than six years, and is not
obviously still valid. Please reopen this bug or file a new report if you continue to experience issues with current releases.

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