From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bugzilla-daemon-CC+yJ3UmIYqDUpFQwHEjaQ@public.gmane.org Subject: [Bug 100760] New: Rapid flickering when an app is placed on the second Nouveau ZaphodHeads display Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 22:39:02 +0000 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0776008248==" Return-path: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: nouveau-bounces-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org Sender: "Nouveau" To: nouveau-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org List-Id: nouveau.vger.kernel.org --===============0776008248== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="14929007420.45Eb.23576"; charset="UTF-8" --14929007420.45Eb.23576 Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 22:39:02 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Bugzilla-URL: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D100760 Bug ID: 100760 Summary: Rapid flickering when an app is placed on the second Nouveau ZaphodHeads display Product: xorg Version: unspecified Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) OS: Linux (All) Status: NEW Severity: major Priority: medium Component: Driver/nouveau Assignee: nouveau-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org Reporter: mrj-ejQy8aU/RJumpXlQD71PVDSf8X3wrgjD@public.gmane.org QA Contact: xorg-team-go0+a7rfsptAfugRpC6u6w@public.gmane.org For many years I've configured my second monitor as a separate X display because this allows the monitors to have an independent sets of virtual desktops. With five virtual desktops on each monitor, I could select and display 25 combinations instead of the five with Xinerama. This worked fine with the "separate X displays" mode of the proprietary Nvi= dia driver. But eventually the second display couldn't display a background ima= ge (black only). Later, apps started from a panel or terminal on the second display would come up on the first unless I set the DISPLAY variable to :0.= 1 on the command lines of both launchers and terminal commands. I could live with both of these problems. When the proprietary Nvidia driver no longer supported my graphics card in = the latest X, I moved to Nouveau, using the ZaphodHeads option to get the equivalent of the "separate X displays" mode. This worked, though I still h= ad the same problems with getting stuff to appear on the second display. This was with Fedora 23. I've just upgraded to Fedora 25, and although the second X monitor and display still comes up (black only, but a pointer can = be moved around it), nothing can be placed on it. If I run "DISPLAY=3D:0.1 mate-terminal" on the first display, the terminal does appear on the second, but there is a rapid flickering of both displays, sometimes ending in a mac= hine crash, and the new terminal cannot be used. This happens with both Mate and Gnome 3. Xinerama mode (empty xorg.conf) works fine, though of course I've now got o= nly five instead of 25 virtual desktop combinations. The current Fedora 25 Nouveau version is xorg-x11-drv-nouveau.x86_64 1:1.0.14-2.fc25, and the Kernel version is 4.10.10-200.fc25.x86_64. * Is this a Nouveau problem? * Is this a known problem? * Is this unlikely to be fixed because "Zaphod mode is a legacy feature" https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D99103#c6 ? * Is there another way to get dedicated sets of virtual desktops for each monitor? --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.= --14929007420.45Eb.23576 Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 22:39:02 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Bugzilla-URL: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
Bug ID 100760
Summary Rapid flickering when an app is placed on the second Nouveau = ZaphodHeads display
Product xorg
Version unspecified
Hardware x86-64 (AMD64)
OS Linux (All)
Status NEW
Severity major
Priority medium
Component Driver/nouveau
Assignee nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org
Reporter mrj@advancedcontrols.com.au
QA Contact xorg-team@lists.x.org 

For many years I've configured my second monitor as a separate=
 X display
because this allows the monitors to have an independent sets of virtual
desktops. With five virtual desktops on each monitor, I could select and
display 25 combinations instead of the five with Xinerama.

This worked fine with the "separate X displays" mode of the propr=
ietary Nvidia
driver. But eventually the second display couldn't display a background ima=
ge
(black only). Later, apps started from a panel or terminal on the second
display would come up on the first unless I set the DISPLAY variable to :0.=
1 on
the command lines of both launchers and terminal commands. I could live with
both of these problems.

When the proprietary Nvidia driver no longer supported my graphics card in =
the
latest X, I moved to Nouveau, using the ZaphodHeads option to get the
equivalent of the "separate X displays" mode. This worked, though=
 I still had
the same problems with getting stuff to appear on the second display.

This was with Fedora 23. I've just upgraded to Fedora 25, and although the
second X monitor and display still comes up (black only, but a pointer can =
be
moved around it), nothing can be placed on it. If I run "DISPLAY=3D:0.1
mate-terminal" on the first display, the terminal does appear on the s=
econd,
but there is a rapid flickering of both displays, sometimes ending in a mac=
hine
crash, and the new terminal cannot be used. This happens with both Mate and
Gnome 3.

Xinerama mode (empty xorg.conf) works fine, though of course I've now got o=
nly
five instead of 25 virtual desktop combinations.

The current Fedora 25 Nouveau version is xorg-x11-drv-nouveau.x86_64
1:1.0.14-2.fc25, and the Kernel version is 4.10.10-200.fc25.x86_64.

* Is this a Nouveau problem?
* Is this a known problem?
* Is this unlikely to be fixed because "Zaphod mode is a legacy featur=
e"
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bu=
g.cgi?id=3D99103#c6 ?
* Is there another way to get dedicated sets of virtual desktops for each
monitor?

You are receiving this mail because:
  • You are the assignee for the bug.
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