Bug 38642 - [SNB] mesa 7.11: missing characters in text display of freedroid rpg
Summary: [SNB] mesa 7.11: missing characters in text display of freedroid rpg
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Mesa
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Drivers/DRI/i915 (show other bugs)
Version: git
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Chris Wilson
QA Contact:
URL: http://bugs.debian.org/631516
Whiteboard:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2011-06-24 07:08 UTC by Martin Steigerwald
Modified: 2011-07-01 13:25 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

See Also:
i915 platform:
i915 features:


Attachments
screenshot showing those missing characters (641.92 KB, image/png)
2011-06-24 07:11 UTC, Martin Steigerwald
Details

Description Martin Steigerwald 2011-06-24 07:08:10 UTC
With mesa 7.11~0-2 from Debian experimental I have missing characters in text display of freedroidrpg 0.14.1-1 on my ThinkPad T520 with SandyBridge graphics. I attach a screen shot. It doesn´t matter whether I play the game in full screen or not. I see nothing obvious in dmesg, syslog, ~/.xsession-errors or Xorg log.

When I downgrade to 7.10.3-3 all characters are shown.

Packages in use (now with 7.10 mesa again):

martin@merkaba:~> apt-show-versions | egrep "(xserver-xorg-core|mesa|drm)"
libdrm-intel1/sid uptodate 2.4.25-3
libdrm-radeon1/sid uptodate 2.4.25-3
libdrm2/sid uptodate 2.4.25-3
libgl1-mesa-dev/sid uptodate 7.10.3-3
libgl1-mesa-dri/sid uptodate 7.10.3-3
libgl1-mesa-glx/sid uptodate 7.10.3-3
libglu1-mesa/sid uptodate 7.10.3-3
libglu1-mesa-dev/sid uptodate 7.10.3-3
mesa-common-dev/sid uptodate 7.10.3-3
mesa-utils/sid uptodate 8.0.1-2
xserver-xorg-core/sid uptodate 2:1.10.2-2
martin@merkaba:~> lspci -nn | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0126] (rev 09)

Kernel in use:

martin@merkaba:~> cat /proc/version 
Linux version 3.0.0-rc4-amd64 (Debian 3.0.0~rc4-1~experimental.1) (maks@debian.org) (gcc version 4.4.6 (Debian 4.4.6-6) ) #1 SMP Tue Jun 21 13:22:03 UTC 2011

(which fixes freezes in supertuxkart 0.7 played fullscreen all 10-15 seconds that I still had with 3.0.0-rc3, Debian changelog hinted at that - yeah and thanks ;)

Graphics in use:

martin@merkaba:~> lspci -nn | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0126] (rev 09)
Comment 1 Martin Steigerwald 2011-06-24 07:11:13 UTC
Created attachment 48382 [details]
screenshot showing those missing characters
Comment 2 Cyril Brulebois 2011-06-24 07:42:25 UTC
Adding the link to Debian bug #631516 as URL for this bug report (http://bugs.debian.org/631516).
Comment 3 Martin Steigerwald 2011-06-24 07:43:57 UTC
Said debian package is:

* New upstream snapshot, from the master branch (up to 2fe39b46e7).

(wanted to add debian bug link in that moment too, but you did already, Cyril;-).
Comment 4 Chris Wilson 2011-06-25 14:28:00 UTC
commit a5a36d9b158a317daa1cf10a6b6ed2bed6b22750
Author: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Date:   Fri Jun 10 20:19:01 2011 -0700

    i965: Don't try to continue space before the start of a VBO.
    
    This loop is trying to see if all the buffers to be uploaded happen to
    be the same increment from the start of the 3DSTATE_VERTEX_BUFFERS
    currently loaded in the hardware.  However, we might be at a smaller
    offset than the previous set of VERTEX_BUFFERS, so we can't reuse
    because that packet made the first entry be its starting offset (you
    can't access outside the given bounds).
    
    Fixes piglit ARB_vertex_buffer_object/elements-negative-offset.
Comment 5 Gordon Jin 2011-06-26 17:40:35 UTC
(correcting component)
Comment 6 Martin Steigerwald 2011-06-27 00:59:41 UTC
According to module list it is i915, not i965. Thanks to the Debian maintainer Cyril I will be getting an mesa package with just this commit cherry-picked soon and test the fix then.
Comment 7 Martin Steigerwald 2011-06-27 01:02:43 UTC
Changed back to i965 to have it assigned to Chris Wilson again. Sorry for noise.
Comment 8 Martin Steigerwald 2011-06-27 01:04:37 UTC
I give up to understand bugzilla. Now its i915 and Chris Wilson set manually.
Comment 9 Gordon Jin 2011-06-27 01:30:52 UTC
(In reply to comment #6)
> According to module list it is i915, not i965. 

just curious what's the module name for i915?
The Mesa DRI driver for SNB should be i965.
There's a kernel module named i915.
Comment 10 Martin Steigerwald 2011-06-27 02:35:18 UTC
Well I do have two apparently different drivers:

merkaba:~> ls -l $(dpkg -L libgl1-mesa-dri | grep i9)
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3449304 19. Jun 17:47 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i915_dri.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3678488 19. Jun 17:47 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i965_dri.so

Anyway, I leave that to the experts now to decide ;).
Comment 11 Martin Steigerwald 2011-06-27 02:36:53 UTC
Sorry I forgot: i915 is the module name according to lsmod.
Comment 12 Martin Steigerwald 2011-06-27 06:26:43 UTC
Fix confirmed. All characters of the text are visible again.

I didn´t get any higher framerate due to SNB tough. But the framerate raised when upgrading from 3.0.0-rc3 to 3.0.0-rc4 with mesa 7.10 still back then from about 18-20 maximum to 28-30 maximum at 1400x1050.
Comment 13 Martin Steigerwald 2011-06-27 06:27:16 UTC
Thanks for fixing the bug!
Comment 14 Martin Steigerwald 2011-07-01 13:25:29 UTC
Just for the record, as the backtrace in bug #38898 shows, its really i965 being involved here.


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