Hardware: Dell Dimension 2400, Intel 845G (Intel 82845G/G[Brookdale-G]/GE rev 01) Software: current ArchLinux, xorg-server-1.14.3-1, xf86-video-intel-2.21.15-1 newly installed system with default rendering method (SNA?) X started fine but showed only reduced colors (256?) so I set it to UXA (as described in the Archlinux Wiki) then X worked fine at first but after a cold start X showed only a blank screen (black with only the mouse pointer) then I set it back to default setting (SNA?) and restarted X as before X started fine but with reduced colors (256?) then I set it back to UXA again and restarted X and it suddenly worked again after cold start again only blank screen (black with only the mouse pointer) Also, no error messages in /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Switching consoles doesn't help. Cold start with default settings (SNA?) works. I would suggest it could be a problem with initial hardware state when the driver is set to UXA. It might be specific to the chipset or even the system/bios.
sna/gen2 uses 16bpp by default, use Section "Screen" Identifier "screen0" DefaultDepth 24 EndSection or Xorg -depth 24 to specify a higher colour depth (at quite a dramatic cost to performance, the igp is very bw limited).
(In reply to comment #1) > sna/gen2 uses 16bpp by default, use > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "screen0" > DefaultDepth 24 > EndSection > > or Xorg -depth 24 to specify a higher colour depth (at quite a dramatic cost > to performance, the igp is very bw limited). s.kno@web.de, was this helpful? Is this still an issue or can we close the bug?
(In reply to comment #2) > s.kno@web.de, was this helpful? Is this still an issue or can we close the > bug? We can't close it until we root cause why UXA shows a blank screen.
Hello, I am facing the exact same problem. Debian jessie/testing i386 updated as of 6 January 2013. $ uname -a Linux jessie 3.12-1-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.12.6-2 (2013-12-29) i686 GNU/Linux X.Org X Server 1.14.5 Release Date: 2013-12-12 $ dpkg -s xserver-xorg-video-intel Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Status: install ok installed Architecture: i386 Source: xserver-xorg-video-intel (2:2.21.15-1) Version: 2:2.21.15-1+b2 $ lspci -nn 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface [8086:2560] (rev 01) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device [8086:2562] (rev 01) This snippet is to be used with which AccelMethod? SNA or UXA? Section "Screen" Identifier "screen0" DefaultDepth 24 EndSection With SNA, color gradients don't get rendered smoothly, they appear in ugly discrete steps. With UXA, lightdm doesn't start. I get blank screen. So my weird workaround is: Start lightdm in UXA mode; replace SNA with UXA in xorg.conf; log in and start session in UXA mode. Why does UXA fail to work the first time? It only works second time onwards. I need to get this bug solved. How can I help you debug this?
If you think 16-bit rendering appears bad on your display, don't use 16-bit...
Ok, using the "DefaultDepth 24" directive with SNA, gets rid of the gradient rendering problem. But there is still a problem of portions of windows not getting repainted/updated spontaneously. Steps to reproduce: start playing a video in VLC player; activate another window (eg. firefox) by clicking in it. What happens: the video frame of VLC becomes completely black, only audio's playing What should have happened: the video should continue to render If I resize VLC player or stop-start the video, the video appears again. Click on another window and the video frame of VLC blacks out again. $ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section "Device" Identifier "device0" Driver "intel" Option "AccelMethod" "SNA" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "screen0" DefaultDepth 24 EndSection $ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log .... .... .... [ 22.229] (II) intel(0): SNA compiled: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.21.15-1+b2 (amd64 / i386 Build Daemon (babin) <buildd-babin@buildd.debian.org>) [ 22.270] (II) intel(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section "screen0" for depth/fbbpp 24/32 [ 22.270] (**) intel(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 [ 22.271] (==) intel(0): RGB weight 888 [ 22.271] (==) intel(0): Default visual is TrueColor [ 22.271] (**) intel(0): Option "AccelMethod" "SNA" [ 22.271] (--) intel(0): Integrated Graphics Chipset: Intel(R) 845G [ 22.272] (--) intel(0): CPU: x86, sse2 [ 22.272] (**) intel(0): Framebuffer tiled [ 22.272] (**) intel(0): Pixmaps tiled [ 22.272] (**) intel(0): "Tear free" disabled [ 22.272] (**) intel(0): Forcing per-crtc-pixmaps? no [ 22.272] (II) intel(0): Output VGA1 has no monitor section [ 22.272] (--) intel(0): Output VGA1 using initial mode 1600x900 on pipe 0 [ 22.272] (==) intel(0): DPI set to (96, 96) [ 22.272] (II) Loading sub module "dri2" [ 22.272] (II) LoadModule: "dri2" [ 22.272] (II) Module "dri2" already built-in [ 22.272] (==) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp [ 22.397] (II) intel(0): SNA initialized with Almador (gen2) backend [ 22.397] (==) intel(0): Backing store disabled [ 22.397] (==) intel(0): Silken mouse enabled [ 22.398] (II) intel(0): HW Cursor enabled [ 22.398] (II) intel(0): RandR 1.2 enabled, ignore the following RandR disabled message. [ 22.436] (==) intel(0): DPMS enabled [ 22.436] (II) intel(0): Textured video not supported on this hardware [ 22.496] (II) intel(0): [DRI2] Setup complete [ 22.496] (II) intel(0): [DRI2] DRI driver: i915 [ 22.496] (II) intel(0): direct rendering: DRI2 Enabled [ 22.496] (==) intel(0): hotplug detection: "enabled" [ 22.496] (--) RandR disabled [ 22.556] (II) SELinux: Disabled on system [ 23.277] (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer [ 23.277] (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_INTEL_swap_event [ 23.277] (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_ARB_create_context [ 23.277] (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_ARB_create_context_profile [ 23.277] (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_EXT_create_context_es2_profile [ 23.277] (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_SGI_swap_control and GLX_MESA_swap_control [ 23.277] (II) AIGLX: GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap backed by buffer objects [ 23.278] (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized i915 [ 23.278] (II) GLX: Initialized DRI2 GL provider for screen 0 [ 23.303] (II) intel(0): switch to mode 1600x900@60.0 on pipe 0 using VGA1, position (0, 0), rotation normal [ 23.320] (II) intel(0): Setting screen physical size to 423 x 238 .... .... ....
Using the "DefaultDepth 24" directive with UXA, I get a partially black screen. Some UI elements of lightdm are visible like the username and password text fields. It seems lightdm has loaded but not completely rendered to the display. Only those UI elements with which I have interacted, are visible. Also text appears jumbled and missing characters. UI elements start getting visbile only after I have clicked on them. So I have problems with both UXA and SNA AccelMethods. * The only problem with UXA is the one described above and which occurs only during the first run of X server. It works second run onwards. * The problem with SNA is involuntary repaintng of portions of windows (described in my previous comment)
Ok, fired up my trusty 845g and verified that basic overlay works with mplayer. Which video backend does VLC use (gl, Xv), and which window-manager/compositor do you use?
I haven't encountered any problems using vlc or mplayer on this 845g using awesome as my window manager and depth 15, 16 or 24.
Using SNA: If I go to VLC preferences->Video and set Ouput to "X11 video output (XCB)", the video runs properly. Setting the VLC output to "XVideo output (XCB)" causes the problem described in comment 6. "OpenGL GLX video output (XCB)" works as well, but with noticeably more CPU usage than "X11 video output (XCB)". I am using Xfce 4.10, so the window manager is xfwm4. I had Xfce's (Settings->Window Manager Tweaks) inbuilt compositor turned on. So execpt "Xvideo output" and appearance of minor artifacts on Xfce's panel which go away once I hover mouse pointer over the panel, over all graphics is working nice enough. # cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section "Device" Identifier "device0" Driver "intel" Option "AccelMethod" "SNA" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "screen0" DefaultDepth 24 EndSection
I followed your instructions (debian/sid, sna depth 24, xfce4, vlc using Xv, xf86-video-intel/tests/vsync.avi, and firefox/terminal) and tried to reproduce the failure with both 2.21.15 and 2.99.907. The output never failed. This is with drm-intel-nightly, but 3.12 isn't old enough to cause concern. :|
This should fix the corruption in the panel: commit e916c922ce3913712cd8a9b76ab037840b7f07f1 Author: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Date: Thu Jan 23 17:30:29 2014 +0000 sna: Avoid erroneous discarding operations for partial composites Composite operations were presumed to cover their entire width x height area. However, a few paths submit boxes that do not cover the clip region and so the optimisation made during prepare to discard completely overwritten data is incorrect (and leads to corruption - stale data is seen which the client expected to have been overdrawn). So along these more unusual paths, we must add a flag to prevent the overzealous discard. Notably, xfce4 triggers this as it uses a lot of unantialiased trapezoids in its theme drawing. References: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69528 Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Timeout. Please reopen if you still face this issue with latest kernel and latest xf86-video-intel
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