Bug 26057

Summary: Artefacts in kde 4
Product: xorg Reporter: Alexander <alex.vizor>
Component: Driver/nouveauAssignee: Nouveau Project <nouveau>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium CC: arvidjaar, asraniel
Version: 7.4 (2008.09)   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:
Attachments:
Description Flags
Screenshot of the corruption none

Description Alexander 2010-01-15 00:56:33 UTC
I'm using kernel 2.6.33-rc4, libdrm from git and nouveau driver from git. In KDE 4.3.4 I have a lot of artefacts on popup menus, on panel and with window decorations. Also sometimes I have problems with fonts in konsole, some letters are "screwed" i.e. I see some strange symbols instead of right char, restarting X helps to solve this.
Comment 1 Andrei Borzenkov 2010-01-29 11:55:22 UTC
Testing KDE 4.4 RC2 with 2.6.33-rc5, Xorg server 1.7.4 and nouveau-firmware-20091212-1mnb2, x11-driver-video-nouveau-0.0.15-0.20091221.1mdv2010.1 also resulted in screen artifacts. KDE bug report was closed as upstream integration problem between qt4 and noueveau driver:  https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=224001
Comment 2 Beat Wolf 2010-07-04 07:29:04 UTC
i would like to confirm this with kde 4.5 rc1, kernel 2.6.32-23, nouveau 0.0.15-git 20100219, xserver 1.7.5
Comment 3 Martin Peres 2010-07-05 01:16:38 UTC
Could you please add a snapshot of the issues you are having?

I will have a look at it soon.
Comment 4 Martin Peres 2010-07-05 01:17:29 UTC
Also, please add kernel logs along with Xorg ones.
Comment 5 Beat Wolf 2010-07-05 05:25:38 UTC
Created attachment 36763 [details]
Screenshot of the corruption

Here you can see the taskbar entry of konversation that has a strange icon. This can happen randomly, sometimes on all taskbar entries.
Comment 6 Martin Peres 2010-07-05 05:44:29 UTC
Beat wolf: What about the logs? 
kernel logs: dmesg > kernel.log
Xorg logs: /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Please post these two files on http://pastebin.com/

The bug you encounter is known, please monitor entry #28039. 

I also happen to have the same problem, the problem should be fixed soon.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 28039 ***
Comment 7 Beat Wolf 2010-07-05 13:09:08 UTC
My kernel log:
http://pastebin.com/hmnagBDe

and my xorg log:
http://pastebin.com/hu4BVEAA

thanks for your help! other than that, nouveau works perfectly with kde, even faster than the binary driver!
Comment 8 Martin Peres 2010-07-06 03:13:52 UTC
Thanks.

We have the very same card and we may have the same laptop :)

Nouveau may seem snappier, but it really isn't (yet).

Please monitor this thread, I'll tell you when I'm done with it.

Use of freedesktop.org services, including Bugzilla, is subject to our Code of Conduct. How we collect and use information is described in our Privacy Policy.