Recently i got some updates to libdrm, xorg-server 1.8. I updated those. After the update i had a weird screen behaviour (graphical glitches) when desktop effects had been activated. Considering a faulty update procedure and knowing that libdrm got updated i rebuilt mesa, xorg-server and all dependant drivers, after that i rebuild kdm and kwin yet after that that graphical glitch remains. Windows disappear, when i have a window minimised then when i click for it to reappear the "look" may stay until i move some other object and "clean" the glitch off. As if a redraw fixes it. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Updated libdrm, xorg-server, xf86-* drivers, (rebuilt mesa, kdm and kwin) 2.Activated kwin desktop-effects 3.Just use the desktop Actual Results: Screen is garbled, some parts "stay" on the screen, like part of a login splash stay on the screen despite minimising it, a closed window stays on the screen after the previous action Expected Results: It should "redraw" the screen correctly without "ghost" residue
lspci | grep VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) emerge --info Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/x86/10.0, gcc-4.4.3, glibc-2.11-r1, 2.6.33-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.33-gentoo-r1-i686-Intel-R-_Celeron-R-_CPU_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:00:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.1_p5 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.10 dev-lang/python: 2.6.5-r1, 3.1.2-r2 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.6.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.65 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.33 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-Os -march=native -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=native -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="pl_PL.utf8@euro" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="pl" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl alsa aspell berkdb bzip2 cli consolekit cracklib crypt cxx dbus dri dvd fortran gdbm gpm hal iconv kde laptop mmx modules mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly opengl openmp pam pcre perl phonon pm-utils policykit pppd python qt3support qt4 readline reflection session spl sql sse sse2 ssl sysfs tcpd threads truetype unicode x86 xorg 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 mmap_emul 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="evdev keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="pl" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep "(EE)" (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. [ 19.458] (EE) Failed to load module "vesa" (module does not exist, 0) [ 19.458] (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0) [ 21.672] (EE) No input driver/identifier specified (ignoring) cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep "(WW)" (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. [ 19.021] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/misc/" does not exist. [ 19.021] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/" does not exist. [ 19.021] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/OTF/" does not exist. [ 19.021] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/" does not exist. [ 19.021] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/" does not exist. [ 19.021] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/" does not exist. [ 19.457] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module vesa [ 19.458] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module fbdev There is no xorg.conf file.
I had the same issue after an upgrade to 1.8 and running a compisiting manager Compiz. I had tried restarting xorg through /etc/init.d/xdm restart and loging in again without any luck(problem persisted). Fortunately after switching to a different user via xdm(gnome new login) and returning to the previous user by logout of the newly loged in user the problem did no appear any more neither for the first user that had the problem nor for the second as the second had no compositing manager running so I was unable to notice the issue for that user. I am not sure whether I have not done emerge -uD world before switching the users. It could be possible that the update solved the problem. I though that the user switching was some kind of fix but after restarting xorg and also rebooting the machine the problem did not appear any more.
Sorry the problem still persists just before I started writing this comment the problem occured again. I tried loging in and out plus the user switch as described in my previous comment and none of these helped this time but after suspending to ram xorg works again.
Also I would like to add that xorg displays some black horizontal strips when rotating the compiz cube.
I can't add anything more since it is unusable in that state if i have desktop effects working. Windows disappear, they flash when moving and eventually also disappear...
Also attach dmesg and kernel config, please
Created attachment 228195 [details] Kernel config (cat /usr/src/linux-2.6.33-r1)
Created attachment 228197 [details] dmesg
Not sure if it will help, but # CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC is not set try with this option enabled (boot with lapic if dmesg tells you to)
Seems to be not kde-specific...
removing KDE from CC, doesn't seem like a kde bug
