| Summary: | Notification and similar dialogs are displaying corrupted after update on Karmic | ||||||||
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| Product: | xorg | Reporter: | Bryce Harrington <bryce> | ||||||
| Component: | Driver/Radeon | Assignee: | xf86-video-ati maintainers <xorg-driver-ati> | ||||||
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Xorg Project Team <xorg-team> | ||||||
| Severity: | normal | ||||||||
| Priority: | high | CC: | grantbow, jfanaian, MStrecke | ||||||
| Version: | 7.4 (2008.09) | ||||||||
| Hardware: | x86 (IA32) | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux (All) | ||||||||
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Description
Bryce Harrington
2009-09-02 19:05:34 UTC
Bugzilla wouldn't allow attaching these dialogs due to its size limits, so inlining links here: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30510557/notify.png http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30510589/brightness_display.png http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30510558/BootDmesg.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30510559/CurrentDmesg.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30510568/XorgLog.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30510569/XorgLogOld.txt please try with the latest git from master. make sure you have: 794ae743c305331741e7cf45dd71c755fe325ed5 A Ubuntu package of 794ae743 can be found in this PPA for testing: https://edge.launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa + xserver-xorg-video-ati - 1:6.12.99+git20090902.794ae743-0ubuntu0tormod I installed revision 794ae743 but still experience the same issues. Something I would like to note, is that it works if I turn on compositing (through compiz). The only problem, is that there are worse issues when I do this. For example, windows do not update until I mouse over them (or even show up). Parts of windows will not change. For example, if I click on a different tab in a window the content will be the same, until I try to mouse over the content. I will try to provide a few screenshots of this happening. Created attachment 29884 [details]
Issue with compiz
Created attachment 29885 [details]
Issue with compiz
Is it known which X related packages were upgraded to cause the problem, and what versions/snapshots they were upgraded from/to? (In reply to comment #7) > Is it known which X related packages were upgraded to cause the problem, and > what versions/snapshots they were upgraded from/to? > I believe the problem is due to the xserver-xorg-video-ati. AFAIK I am running the radeon drivers. They stopped working when I upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic). The version in Jaunty (last one that worked) was: 1:6.12.1-0ubuntu2 The version in stock Karmic (the first one that showed the issue for me) was: 1:6.12.99+git20090825.fc74e119-0ubuntu2 The current version running on my system is: 1:6.12.99+git20090926.7968e1fb-0ubuntu0tormod I'm not sure where the issue started happening or even if it is the ati drivers (Karmic switched a lot of video related things that I don't completely understand). Please let me know if there is any more information that I can provide to help solve the problem. Thanks for your time and effort so far. Does
Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
fix the problem?
(In reply to comment #9) > Does > > Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" > > fix the problem? > Ah, that did fix the problem. So it is related to the switch of AccelMethod in Karmic. Well, I guess I'll stick to EXA for now. Should I file a bug report about this, or is this issue related to my video card? If so, is that a Xserver or Ubuntu issue? Thanks! (In reply to comment #10) > Ah, that did fix the problem. So it is related to the switch of AccelMethod in > Karmic. Well, I guess I'll stick to EXA for now. Yeah, I wouldn't hold my breath for the XAA issue to be fixed. > Should I file a bug report about this, or is this issue related to my video > card? If so, is that a Xserver or Ubuntu issue? The default acceleration method is determined by the driver. However, this is tricky - the default was first changed from XAA to EXA for all cards, but then back to XAA for cards such as yours with little video RAM, due to complaints about bad performance with EXA. Hopefully that can be fixed once and for all at some point with KMS, but in the meantime I'm afraid we just can't get the default right for everybody. (In reply to comment #10) > (In reply to comment #9) > > Does > > > > Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" > > > > fix the problem? > > > > Ah, that did fix the problem. So it is related to the switch of AccelMethod in > Karmic. Well, I guess I'll stick to EXA for now. I have a similar problem with my old laptop and the r100 driver. It works fine with compiz, but without some programs show these straight lines on some (not all) applications (the notifier area being the most important). Where do I put the above mentioned option? There is no xorg.conf anymore (at least I can't find any). Instructions on creating an xorg.conf file at: http://www.x.org/wiki/ConfigurationHelp#head-fde40308d7e22646bdc3bef3dd41daa9872f47b9 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 22055 *** |
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