Bug 106593 - screen black when rotated and flicker xf86-video-vesa(2.4.0-2)
Summary: screen black when rotated and flicker xf86-video-vesa(2.4.0-2)
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 105812
Alias: None
Product: xorg
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Driver/Vesa (show other bugs)
Version: 7.5 (2009.10)
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
: medium minor
Assignee: Xorg Project Team
QA Contact: Xorg Project Team
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Reported: 2018-05-21 15:05 UTC by Mathias Schmidt
Modified: 2018-05-22 09:20 UTC (History)
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Attachments
Xorg.log (1.36 MB, text/plain)
2018-05-21 15:05 UTC, Mathias Schmidt
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Another log file for a system with this issue. (49.34 KB, text/plain)
2018-05-21 17:09 UTC, Mike Javorski
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Description Mathias Schmidt 2018-05-21 15:05:12 UTC
Created attachment 139659 [details]
Xorg.log

Problem with the new xf86-video-vesa(2.4.0-2) it might be linked to xf86-video-fbdev(0.4.4+13+g9af7f81-1), xorg-server(1.20.0-2) and xorg-server-commen(1.20.0-2)

Unable to rotate screen without it turning black, only able to see the mouse courser nothing else, function fine in normal mode. also lots of flickering if a second screen is attach during startup the flickering will stop after some time.
Comment 1 Mike Javorski 2018-05-21 17:08:29 UTC
Distro: Arch Linux
failing xorg-server package: xorg-server-1.20.0-2
working xorg-server package: xorg-server-1.19.6+13+gd0d1a694f-2

I have experienced a similar issue running with the xf86-video-ati driver. The second (and only rotated) screen is constantly flickering whenever there is a redraw and is often completely distorted and flickering so little is readable. 

I find that the flickering does stop/slow down when the cursor is not moving, and nothing on the screen is being updated.

Reverting to the last working xorg-server package and everything works fine again. Note that the same version of xf86-video-ati is being used, though compiled with the matching xorg-server version.

I'll attach my log file, though I doubt it has anything useful other than version info.
Comment 2 Mike Javorski 2018-05-21 17:09:33 UTC
Created attachment 139663 [details]
Another log file for a system with this issue.
Comment 3 Michel Dänzer 2018-05-22 09:20:26 UTC
(In reply to Mike Javorski from comment #1)
> I have experienced a similar issue running with the xf86-video-ati driver.

Please file your own report against the radeon driver, and also include the output of

 xrandr --verbose

while the problem is occurring.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 105812 ***


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