Bug 99020

Summary:

Active window flashes while using Cinnamon desktop

Product:

xorg

Reporter:

edwardp

Component:

Driver/Radeon

Assignee:

xf86-video-ati maintainers <xorg-driver-ati>

Status:

RESOLVED MOVED

QA Contact:

Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>

Severity:

normal

Priority:

medium

CC:

edwardp, poltron54

Version:

7.7 (2012.06)

Hardware:

x86-64 (AMD64)

OS:

Linux (All)

Whiteboard:

i915 platform:

i915 features:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Output of dmesg	none
Xorg.0.log	none
Output of glxinfo	none
Video of window flashing - scrolling through document using LibreOffice.	none
Longer video - has multiple flashes	none
Pols12 output of dmesg	none

Description edwardp 2016-12-08 00:06:27 UTC

Also filed with Red Hat: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1400360

Description of problem:

When using a web browser (Firefox, Chromium) or any application like a terminal, the active window, while using the Cinnamon desktop occasionally blinks or flashes. The active window (except for its borders) will briefly turn black for a microsecond, then the window appears normal again.

The monitor is a Sceptre X9, 19-inch LCD, the default resolution is 1280x1024 and cannot go beyond that setting.

The Cinnamon maintainer for Red Hat informed me that it is a bug in the driver, the PC is using the 'radeon' driver, per the information below.


How reproducible:

Launch Cinnamon desktop and use a web browser, any application, or a terminal. Display will occasionally blink/flash.


Additional info:

I also have the MATE desktop installed and the active window while using MATE does not blink or flash, this only occurs with Cinnamon. With other monitor resolutions that are selectable, also while using Cinnamon, the active window also blinks/flashes at those resolutions as well.

This began with Fedora 25, it did not occur with Fedora 24 and earlier versions.

However, on a 32-bit ThinkPad T43 laptop with a finer resolution than 1280x1024, also with Fedora 25 running, the active window does not blink or flash while using Cinnamon on the laptop. The laptop also uses the 'radeon' driver.

Version of driver installed: 

xorg-x11-drv-ati-7.7.1-1.20160928git3fc839ff.fc25.x86_64


Output of 'lspci -v' from the 64-bit computer in question:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 2ab7
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, NUMA node 0
	Capabilities: <access denied>

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] RS780/RS880 PCI to PCI bridge (int gfx) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, NUMA node 0
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
	I/O behind bridge: 0000c000-0000cfff
	Memory behind bridge: fe800000-fe9fffff
	Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000d0000000-00000000dfffffff
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel modules: shpchp

00:07.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] RS780/RS880 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 3) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 24, NUMA node 0
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
	I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff
	Memory behind bridge: fea00000-feafffff
	Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000fde00000-00000000fdefffff
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
	Kernel modules: shpchp

00:11.0 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 2ab7
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 22, NUMA node 0
	I/O ports at b000 [size=8]
	I/O ports at a000 [size=4]
	I/O ports at 9000 [size=8]
	I/O ports at 8000 [size=4]
	I/O ports at 7000 [size=16]
	Memory at fe7ffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: ahci

00:12.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 2ab7
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16, NUMA node 0
	Memory at fe7fe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Kernel driver in use: ohci-pci

00:12.1 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0 USB OHCI1 Controller (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 2ab7
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16, NUMA node 0
	Memory at fe7fd000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Kernel driver in use: ohci-pci

00:12.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 2ab7
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17, NUMA node 0
	Memory at fe7ff800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci

00:13.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 2ab7
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18, NUMA node 0
	Memory at fe7fc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Kernel driver in use: ohci-pci

00:13.1 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0 USB OHCI1 Controller (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 2ab7
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18, NUMA node 0
	Memory at fe7f7000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Kernel driver in use: ohci-pci

00:13.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 2ab7
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19, NUMA node 0
	Memory at fe7ff400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci

00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 3c)
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 2ab7
	Flags: 66MHz, medium devsel, NUMA node 0
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: piix4_smbus
	Kernel modules: i2c_piix4, sp5100_tco

00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 2ab7
	Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16, NUMA node 0
	Memory at fe7f0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
	Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel

00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 LPC host controller
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 2ab7
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, NUMA node 0

00:14.4 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, NUMA node 0
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=04, subordinate=04, sec-latency=64

00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor HyperTransport Configuration
	Flags: fast devsel, NUMA node 0
	Capabilities: <access denied>

00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor Address Map
	Flags: fast devsel, NUMA node 0

00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor DRAM Controller
	Flags: fast devsel, NUMA node 0

00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor Miscellaneous Control
	Flags: fast devsel, NUMA node 0
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: k10temp
	Kernel modules: k10temp

00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor Link Control
	Flags: fast devsel, NUMA node 0

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS780L [Radeon 3000] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 2ab7
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18, NUMA node 0
	Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
	I/O ports at c000 [size=256]
	Memory at fe9f0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
	Memory at fe800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
	[virtual] Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: radeon
	Kernel modules: radeon

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 06)
	Subsystem: TP-LINK Technologies Co., Ltd. TG-3468 Gigabit PCI Express Network Adapter
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 25, NUMA node 0
	I/O ports at d800 [size=256]
	Memory at feaff000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Memory at fdefc000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: r8169
	Kernel modules: r8169

Comment 1 Michel Dänzer 2016-12-08 07:31:49 UTC

Please attach the Xorg log file and the output of dmesg and glxinfo corresponding to the problem.

Comment 2 edwardp 2016-12-08 18:08:40 UTC

Created attachment 128383 [details]
Output of dmesg

OUtput of dmesg

Comment 3 edwardp 2016-12-08 18:09:23 UTC

Created attachment 128384 [details]
Xorg.0.log

Xorg.0.log file

Comment 4 edwardp 2016-12-08 18:09:46 UTC

Created attachment 128385 [details]
Output of glxinfo

Output of glxinfo

Comment 5 edwardp 2016-12-08 22:57:31 UTC

I sm scrolling through the Xorg.0.log file using LibreOffice right now and during the scrolling, the window flashed/blinked several times. I was able to notice that the entire window (including the borders) flashed/blinked, not just the inside of the window.

Comment 6 Michel Dänzer 2016-12-09 02:15:58 UTC

Any chance you can make a video showing the problem?

Comment 7 edwardp 2016-12-09 18:49:32 UTC

Created attachment 128395 [details]
Video of window flashing - scrolling through document using LibreOffice.

Comment 8 edwardp 2016-12-09 23:05:17 UTC

Created attachment 128401 [details]
Longer video - has multiple flashes

A longer video, displaying multiple flashes.

Comment 9 Pols12 2017-05-07 15:54:34 UTC

Created attachment 131241 [details]
Pols12 output of dmesg

I encounter the same issue. I attach my output of dmesg.

pols12@asus-deb:~$ lspci -vnnk | grep VGA -A 10
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV710/M92 [Mobility Radeon HD 4530/4570/545v] [1002:9553] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Mobility Radeon HD 4570 [1043:1b42]
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
	Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=512M]
	I/O ports at d800 [size=256]
	Memory at fdef0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
	Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: radeon
	Kernel modules: radeon

Comment 10 Martin Peres 2019-11-19 07:59:41 UTC

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