Bug 336865 – xf86-video-ati-6.13.1 causing flickering with composite enabled, 6.13.0 works without problems

• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Lamarque V. Souza 2010-09-11 21:07:57 UTC]

Hi, I am facing a lot of flickering in my screen since I have upgraded to
xf86-video-ati-6.13.1 today and using composite enabled. Downgrading to
xf86-video-ati-6.13.0 solved the problem.

With xf86-video-ati-6.13.1 kwin 4.5.1 disables the 3D effects at login, when I
press Shift+Alt+F12 kwin enables them but the flickering starts, specially when
I click on Kopete's systray icon to show/hide its main window. With
xf86-video-ati-6.13.0 kwin enables the 3D effects at login and there is no
flickering. Kwin has some tests that automatically disables 3D effects if there
is something wrong, which clearly is the case.

My card is a ATI HD4570 (M92, pci id 1002:9553). Relevant ebuilds I use:
kernel 2.6.35.4
xorg-server-1.8.2
mesa-7.8.2
libdrm-2.4.20-r1
radeon-ucode-20100408

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a KDE 4.5.1 session.
2. Enable 3D effects.
3. Click on Kopete's systray icon. It happens in other situations but this one is certain to trig the problem.

Actual Results:  
The screen flicker.

Expected Results:  
The screen should not flicker.

[Comment 1 infobox.oleg 2010-10-20 11:10:16 UTC]

Hi,

I have some flickering issues as well, but I have Intel (GMA950) on Lenovo R400. I suspect it is some newer versions of drivers, xorg or intel. 

There is a wide array of visual "effects" people refer to as "flickering". Could you post a video of your screen?

My screen looks like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC0-HU6XeQk
Disclaimer: please, ignore music, it is something I've recorded from ambient source by chance.

Thanks.
Oleg

[Comment 2 Lamarque V. Souza 2010-10-20 13:53:28 UTC]

Here there a screencast showing the problem:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkFxigwkaqU

[Comment 3 Andreas K. Hüttel 2010-11-14 14:37:42 UTC]

Looks more like an x11 problem...

[Comment 4 infobox.oleg 2010-11-14 19:31:32 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> My screen looks like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC0-HU6XeQk
> Disclaimer: please, ignore music, it is something I've recorded from ambient
> source by chance.
This was probably hardware issue. Lenovo fixed it by LCD exchange (but introduced another screen problem... whatever...).

[Comment 5 Andreas K. Hüttel 2011-01-15 17:49:04 UTC]

Removing kde, cc us back if you need any help

[Comment 6 Matt Turner 2015-02-22 21:55:27 UTC]

Hopefully fixed long ago. If not, open a bug upstream https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xorg&component=Driver/Radeon