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Bug 210621 - xorg-server-1.3.0.0-r5 screen distortion with nvidia-drivers-100.14.19 between xawtv-3.95-r1 and other media apps
Summary: xorg-server-1.3.0.0-r5 screen distortion with nvidia-drivers-100.14.19 betwee...
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High minor (vote)
Assignee: Doug Goldstein (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2008-02-18 19:59 UTC by ash
Modified: 2008-03-04 15:33 UTC (History)
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Description ash 2008-02-18 19:59:36 UTC
This bug seems extra mysterious to me.

I have xawtv 3.95-r1 with which I watch TV using my WinTV card (using the cx8800 kernel module). The weird thing is, when I start X, if I run xawtv first, then quit and run a media app (I've tried xine, totem, and mplayer) I get purple distortion, no picture. If I start X, run a media app, quit and then run xawtv, I get green distortion, no picture. I basically have to restart X whenever I want to switch between these activities.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-02-18 20:08:09 UTC
emerge --info? xorg-server version? xorg.conf? Which video card and which driver and version? Something in Xorg.0.log? Something in syslog? 
Comment 2 ash 2008-02-18 20:22:33 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> emerge --info?

Portage 2.1.3.19 (default-linux/x86/no-nptl, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r4, 2.6.23.9 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.23.9 i686 AMD Athlon (TM) MP
Timestamp of tree: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:46:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p17-r1
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r6, 2.5.1-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.10-r5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.24
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-Os -mtune=athlon-mp"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /home/mythtv/ /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-Os -mtune=athlon-mp"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer nodoc parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo"
LANG="C"
LINGUAS="en_US en"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acpi aim alsa apache2 bash-completion bzip2 calendar cddb cdparanoia clamav cli cracklib crypt dbus dga dri dvd emacs emacs-w3 encode ffmpeg firefox ftp gcj gif glut gnustep gphoto2 gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv icq imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog jabber java jpeg libwww lirc lm_sensors mad memlimit midi mime mmx mp3 mpeg mudflap mysql ncurses nntp nocd nsplugin offensive ogg opengl openmp oscar pam pcre pdf png pppd quicktime readline reflection sdl session sharedmem spell spl ssl sysvipc tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype unicode usb v4l verbose win32codecs x86 xine xml xorg xpm xv xvid xvmc yahoo zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_US en" LIRC_DEVICES="hauppauge" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv v4l nvidia"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

> xorg-server version?

1.3.0.0-r5

> xorg.conf?

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "X.org Configured"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
        RgbPath      "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
        ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/OTF"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/CID/"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "xtrap"
        Load  "glx"
#       Load  "dri"
        Load  "freetype"
        Load  "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "Buttons" "7"
        Option      "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 6 7"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "Monitor Model"
        Modeline "1920x1200" 193.156 1920 2048 2256 2592 1200 1201 1203 1242 +hsync +vsync
        Modeline "1280x800" 67.26 1280 1312 1560 1592 800 817 824 841
        Modeline "1024x600" 39.00 1024 1056 1200 1232 600 613 618 631
        Modeline "800x500" 40.10 800 832 984 1016 500 510 516 526
        HorizSync    28.0 - 96.0
        VertRefresh  43.0 - 60.0
        Option      "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"

        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "SWcursor"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "HWcursor"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoAccel"                   # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ShadowFB"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "UseFBDev"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "Rotate"                    # [<str>]
        #Option     "VideoKey"                  # <i>
        #Option     "FlatPanel"                 # [<bool>]
        #Option     "FPDither"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "CrtcNumber"                # <i>
        #Option     "FPScale"                   # [<bool>]
        #Option     "FPTweak"                   # <i>
        Identifier  "Card0"
#       Driver      "nv"
        Driver      "nvidia"
        VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
        BoardName   "Unknown Board"
        BusID       "PCI:1:5:0"
        Option      "NvAGP" "0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Card0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth 24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     1
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     4
                Modes "1920x1200" "1280x800" "1024x600" "800x500"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     8
                Modes "1920x1200" "1280x800" "1024x600" "800x500"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     15
                Modes "1920x1200" "1280x800" "1024x600" "800x500"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     16
                Modes "1920x1200" "1280x800" "1024x600" "800x500"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
                Modes "1920x1200" "1280x800" "1024x600" "800x500"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Group        0
EndSection



> Which video card and which
> driver and version?

nVidia 7800GS with nvidia-drivers-100.14.19

> Something in Xorg.0.log? Something in syslog? 
> 

Just the usual... there are no additional messages appearing when I run an app and get the distortion.
Comment 3 ash 2008-02-21 12:36:00 UTC
Info added above.
Comment 4 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-03-04 15:33:09 UTC
Please use nvidia-bug-report.sh and submit this issue to linux-bugs@nvidia.com

It is also recommended to try the latest ~arch version.