Bug 63540 – Xorg 6.8.0: Desktop corruption when DynamicClocks enabled for Radeon graphics board

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Sebastian 2004-09-10 05:44:22 UTC]

Hello!

I got a Centrino Laptop with an ATI 9200 mobility graphics board. After emerging newest Xorg I wanted to use the new feature of DynamicClocks which reduces the clock speed of the Radeon when the system idles. It's a good thing for laptops regarding less power consumption. Problem is, there appears corruption on the desktop window when DynamicClocks is enabled. Not instantly, but after you dragged some windows around.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Tra Radeon 9200, maybe 9100, 9000
2. Turn on DynamicClocks
3. Drag some windows around your desktop

Actual Results:  
Screen gets messy


Ok, here we go. 

Portage 2.0.50-r11 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1,
2.6.8-gentoo-r3)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1400MHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
distcc 2.13 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer
-pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -march=pentium3
-fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distcc sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="crypt mmx ncurses nls readline sse ssl x86 zlib"

[Comment 1 Sebastian 2004-09-10 05:45:27 UTC]

Created attachment 39308 [details]
Picture of the corruption

[Comment 2 Sebastian 2004-09-10 06:04:37 UTC]

I will of course post to Xorg log. I just want to wait until the corruption happens again.

thanks!

Sebastian

[Comment 3 Sebastian 2004-09-10 06:15:46 UTC]

Created attachment 39309 [details]
Xorg log after corruption occurs

As you can see, there's nothing in the logs regarding the corruption. The log
doesn't change when the corruption occurs. Anyway. 

Thanks!

Sebastian

[Comment 4 Sebastian 2004-09-10 06:16:42 UTC]

Created attachment 39310 [details]
Xorg config

[Comment 5 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2004-10-07 16:29:44 UTC]

So just to confirm: you encounter this corruption ONLY when DynamicClocks is on. If you just turn that off and restart X, there's no problem?

[Comment 6 Sebastian 2004-10-07 17:01:33 UTC]

Hi spyderous,

yes, that's right.

Greetings

Sebastian

[Comment 7 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2004-10-07 17:02:42 UTC]

Please file a bug at bugs.freedesktop.org on this and post the URL here.

[Comment 8 Sebastian 2004-10-07 22:54:17 UTC]

Done.

[Comment 9 Sebastian 2004-10-21 11:58:17 UTC]

Hi!

I just installed kernel 2.6.9 and reenabled DynamicClocks an hour ago. No more corruption, even after massive window opening, movie watching and gaming.

Thanks to the fellows that fixed it!

Sebastian

P.S.: Btw, I forgot to post the bug number at freedesktop:
http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1558

[Comment 10 Sebastian 2004-10-22 02:42:10 UTC]

Hi again,

sorry, 1 hour using the new kernel wasn't enough. Corruption us back again.

Sebastian

[Comment 11 Sebastian 2005-03-17 03:38:32 UTC]

Well, seems simply my gfx card isn't up to this. Thanks

Sebastian