Bug 33943

Created attachment 42972 [details]
Image disturbances (web page dict.leo.org)

Created attachment 42973 [details]
xorg configuration in xorg.conf.d/

Created attachment 42974 [details]
Xorg.0.log

Some information about the older xf86-video-ati driver in Arch Linux:
Arch Linux xf86-video-ati version 6.13.2-2 is the 6.13.2 version (http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/driver/xf86-video-ati
-6.13.2.tar.bz2) , it is just a safety rebuild for new libdrm 

Arch Linux package file in git:
http://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/xf86-video-ati/trunk/PKGBUILD?id=e924af0a311e2716db9fdfb80464b7dad97eb01a

Can you try to isolate which driver change introduced the problem with git bisect?

I have updated yesterday to xf86-video-ati 6.14.0.

Steps to repeat the problem:
startx
opening xterm, aterm or eterm
output: http://i.imgur.com/midmJ.jpg
xorg cannot be used after and must be killed

However, after downgrading to xf86-video-ati-6.13.2-2 the problem goes away.

[2011-02-08 12:02] Running 'pacman -U xf86-video-ati-6.13.2-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz'
[2011-02-08 12:02] upgraded xf86-video-ati (6.14.0-1 -> 6.13.2-2)

My WM:
openbox
My video card:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AS [Radeon 9550]

uname -a
Linux p4p 2.6.37-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jan 29 19:40:04 UTC 2011 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Does:
Option "ColorTiling" "False"
in the device section of your xorg.conf fix the issue?

I think the following bugs are probably the same issue:
bug 33929
bug 33952
bug 33943
bug 33963

(In reply to comment #7)
> Does:
> Option "ColorTiling" "False"
> in the device section of your xorg.conf fix the issue?

Yes! I can now open any xterms with no problems.

> 
> I think the following bugs are probably the same issue:
> bug 33929
> bug 33952
> bug 33943
> bug 33963

Hmm, the attached log file claimed tiling was disabled...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 33929 ***

(In reply to comment #9)
> Hmm, the attached log file claimed tiling was disabled...

I think there are two issues on this bug.  Jonathan has an evergreen card which did not support acceleration until 6.14.0, so his issue is probably related to no accel (6.13.x) vs. accel (6.14.x).  Alex's issue is a dup of bug 33929.

Sorry, failed to notice Alex wasn't the original reporter.

What should I try to find the source of this error? Did you need any other log files?

Hallo again

I sticked around with the closed source driver for a while (Arch Linux). But now I switched back to the open source driver (new installation, probelem still exist).
I tried the Kubuntu 11.04 live DVD and I had the same problem.
So I think there is a driver or a hardware problem.

Is there such a thing like a text bench for EXA or how can I try to track down the problem?

Hardware configuration:
-HIS HD 5830 iCooler V 1GB (single screen for the moment)
-Asus M4A89GTD Pro/USB3 with AMD 890GX/SB850 chipset (890GX/Radeon HD4290 VGA controller not visible with lspci)
-AMD Phenom II X6 1055T

Any help is appreciated.
Jonathan

With the latest radeon git version (one commite after xf86-video-ati-6.14.2).

I get

[   102.453] (II) RADEON(0): VRAM usage limit set to 222991K

in Xorg.0.log but my card has 1GB of VRAM in the older Xorg.0.log (2011-02-05) file it reports

[  2666.329] (II) RADEON(0): VRAM usage limit set to 921888K

Is this normal or can it be an initialisation problem?
Can it be a conflict with the internal GPU in the northbridge (should be disabled, not visible with lspci)?

Maybe next week I can test this HIS HD 5830 card in a sandy bridge system (with kubuntu 11.04 live CD).

Greeting
Jonathan

Created attachment 47408 [details]
Xorg.0.log with driver version 6.14.2

Strange VRAM report in Xorg.0.log file.
Driver version 6.14.2

(In reply to comment #14)
> With the latest radeon git version (one commite after xf86-video-ati-6.14.2).
> 
> I get
> 
> [   102.453] (II) RADEON(0): VRAM usage limit set to 222991K
> 
> in Xorg.0.log but my card has 1GB of VRAM in the older Xorg.0.log (2011-02-05)
> file it reports
> 
> [  2666.329] (II) RADEON(0): VRAM usage limit set to 921888K
> 
> Is this normal or can it be an initialisation problem?
> Can it be a conflict with the internal GPU in the northbridge (should be
> disabled, not visible with lspci)?
> 
> Maybe next week I can test this HIS HD 5830 card in a sandy bridge system (with
> kubuntu 11.04 live CD).
> 
> Greeting
> Jonathan

ok dmesg report:
[    5.991245] [drm] radeon: 1024M of VRAM memory ready

With the git driver from 6. jan 2012 the disturbance are gone. Maybe this is relatede to the solved bug #42913.

But now the mouse cursor is gone :/ in KDE (in xfce the cursor is visible)  I think this is an other problem. Some people on http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/install-boot-login/469968-mouse-cursor-disappears-when-hovering.html have the same problem.


So I will close this bug, many thanks for continuously improving the open source driver
Jonathan