From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970
From: bugzilla-daemon@freedesktop.org
Subject: [Bug 76957] New: Pixel artifacts and corruption plus system freeze
and instabilities with the free radeon driver (AMD HD 6570)
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 17:10:39 +0000
Message-ID:
Priority
medium
Bug ID
76957
Assignee
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Summary
Pixel artifacts and corruption plus system freeze and instabi=
lities with the free radeon driver (AMD HD 6570)
Severity
normal
Classification
Unclassified
OS
Linux (All)
Reporter
benjamin.menant+debian@gmail.com
Hardware
x86-64 (AMD64)
Status
NEW
Version
XOrg CVS
Component
DRM/Radeon
Product
DRI
Created attachment 96797 [details=
]
Screenshot
Hello,
Each time I tried to use the free radeon drivers with my desktop computer, I
got those corrupted pixels when X starts. The issue effects increase as the
session time grows: more and more artifacts, more and more character
alterations (for instance, Thunderbird is displaying blocks instead of
characters), more and more instabilities (programs ends up by a segmentation
fault, and could eventually lead to a system freeze).
Otherwise, Gnome Shell starts without error. `glxgears` works and returns g=
ood
FPS. And the virtual consoles remain safe & clean; switching between th=
em and X
has no effect.
The system was stable, without screen corruption when I used the AMD=E2=80=
=99s FGLRX
drivers.
How could I fix this issue? Any idea?
This ticket seems quite similar, should I try the proposed patch?
<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.c=
gi?id=3D66932>
Chipset: AMD Radeon HD 6570 (Turks family) with 512MB dedicated RAM (AFAIR).
CPU: Intel DualCore E6300 with 4GB RAM.
Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64.
And I use the defaut Xorg configuration (i.e. no configuration files).