Bug 36332

Summary:	Missing rendering in Unity dash
Product:	Mesa	Reporter:	Christopher James Halse Rogers <chalserogers>
Component:	Drivers/Gallium/r300	Assignee:	Marek Olšák <maraeo>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	niklas.spamfilter, om26er
Version:	git
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	Xorg.0.log dmesg.txt glxinfo.txt

Description Christopher James Halse Rogers 2011-04-17 18:07:52 UTC

Forwarded from https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/726033

When rendering the Unity dash icons are frequently missing from the rendering.
This video is a good demonstration of the problem: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/68813544/unity-bug.ogv

This works on r600g, nouveau, i915 and i965, so it looks like it's a bug somewhere in r300g.

The dash rendering uses FBOs and ARB shaders, with glscissor for clipping.

Comment 1 Jay Taoko 2011-04-17 18:10:21 UTC

Created attachment 45747 [details]
Xorg.0.log

Comment 2 Jay Taoko 2011-04-17 18:11:05 UTC

Created attachment 45748 [details]
dmesg.txt

Comment 3 Jay Taoko 2011-04-17 18:11:41 UTC

Created attachment 45749 [details]
glxinfo.txt

Comment 4 Christopher James Halse Rogers 2011-04-17 18:18:27 UTC

This occurs on both mesa master (as of 2011/04/18, shown in logs) and 7.10.2.

Comment 5 Jay Taoko 2011-04-17 18:24:09 UTC

The bug can be reproduced on ATI R300/400/500 GPUs. These GPUs are no longer
supported by fglrx so I couldn't verify if it was strictly a driver issue or if
there was some error in our program code. However, the problem cannot be
reproduced with a Radeon HD 4670 and the open source driver (or fglrx). Nor can
it be reproduced with Intel GPUs such as the GMA 950 and above.

The bug manifest itself in the Unity Dash. When an action is performed to show
more icons in the dash, the rendering does not happen. Elements of the Dash
only appear after the mouse moves over them, but this is the result of Unity
refreshing the rendering. Some elements of the dash also disappear. This make
me think that clipping could be involved. Unity makes extensive use of opengl
scissoring.

Comment 6 Pavel Rojtberg 2011-04-20 02:49:45 UTC

there is now a workaround in this commit:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/natty/nux/natty/revision/26

 
// jaytaoko: This is a hack for what looks like a bug (#726033) in the radeon opensource driver
// on R300/400/500. Rather than passing a null region to glScissor, we give the clip area a 1 pixel width.

Comment 7 Marek Olšák 2011-05-06 07:13:43 UTC

Unity doesn't work here after upgrade from 10.10. It hangs after logging in.

Could you possibly make a simple OpenGL test case reproducing this bug? It shouldn't be hard.

Comment 8 Tomasz P. 2013-01-14 15:43:12 UTC

Is it still an issue with current kernel and mesa ?

Comment 9 GitLab Migration User 2019-09-18 18:50:19 UTC

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