Bug 289386 – Screensaver fails in KDE after xorg-1.6 update

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Rick Jenkins 2009-10-16 20:28:49 UTC]

Following the update to xorg-1.6 (latest stable) and using kernel 2.6.31-gentoo-r2 and xf86-video-intel with KDE 3.5.10 (latest stable), the KDE screensaver produces a jazzy pattern of unsynchronised scanning with black, red, and white stripes. This occurs regardless of screensaver setting, the "blank screen" produces the same pattern as any other I've tried. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run KDE
2. Become inactive until the screensaver starts


Actual Results:  
Observe unsynchronised screen pattern

Expected Results:  
Blank screen or synchronised image, according to selection

> emerge --info
Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.31-gentoo-r2 i686)
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System uname: Linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r2-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_4_CPU_2.80GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.11.1
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:45:03 +0000
distcc 3.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu [disabled]
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     4.0_p28
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.8-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.6.2-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.4-r3
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.6-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6a
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.27-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer "
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/init.d /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev /etc/udev/rules.d /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/share/config/kdm /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/X11/xkb/compat /usr/share/X11/xkb/geometry /usr/share/X11/xkb/geometry/sgi /usr/share/X11/xkb/keycodes /usr/share/X11/xkb/keymap /usr/share/X11/xkb/keymap/sgi /usr/share/X11/xkb/keymap/sgi_vndr /usr/share/X11/xkb/keymap/sun /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh_vndr /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/nec /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/pc /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/sun /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/xfree68 /usr/share/X11/xkb/types /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer "
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="ccache distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirrors.tera-byte.com/pub/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://gentoo.arcticnetwork.ca/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.arcticnetwork.ca/ http://adelie.polymtl.ca/ ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/"
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
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"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.ca.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage/"
USE="X a52 aac aalib acl acpi alsa bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dts dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd evo fam firefox flac fortran gd gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde kpathsea ldap libnotify mad mikmod modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png postgres ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd thunar tiff tk truetype unicode usb vorbis win32codecs wxwidgets x264 x86 xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" 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" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Andreas K. Hüttel 2010-04-30 18:27:54 UTC]

Do you still have this problem with current kde-4 and xorg-1.7?

[Comment 2 Rick Jenkins 2010-04-30 21:31:54 UTC]

I found KDE4 so broadly dysfunctional that I changed to Gnome for work. I'm very happy with Gnome, it is solid and gives considerably higher performance. After work this evening I'll run up the current KDE4 with xorg-1.7 and check this out.

[Comment 3 Andreas K. Hüttel 2010-06-06 18:18:19 UTC]

No info for a long time. Not in tree anymore. Resolving.