From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757880Ab0JLR2T (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:28:19 -0400 Received: from mail.agmk.net ([91.192.224.71]:41660 "EHLO mail.agmk.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752268Ab0JLR2S (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:28:18 -0400 From: =?utf-8?q?Pawe=C5=82_Sikora?= To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [2.6.35/drm/radeon] screen blinking during compositing (kde4/effects). Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 19:28:10 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.34; KDE/4.5.2; x86_64; ; ) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201010121928.10353.pluto@agmk.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, with the new 2.6.35 kernel release i have new problems with aiglx/kde4/effects on my old radeon card (lspci) ATI Technologies Inc RV370 secondary [Sapphire X550 Silent]. at the first place, kwin manager decides to disable compositing at all and logs on the console something like this: (...) kwin(3129) KWin::CompositingPrefs::detectDriverAndVersion: GL vendor is "DRI R300 Project" kwin(3129) KWin::CompositingPrefs::detectDriverAndVersion: GL renderer is "Mesa DRI R300 (RV380 5B63) 20090101 TCL DRI2" kwin(3129) KWin::CompositingPrefs::detectDriverAndVersion: GL version is "1.5 Mesa 7.8.2" kwin(3129) KWin::CompositingPrefs::detectDriverAndVersion: Detected driver "radeon" , version "20090101" kwin(3129) KWin::EffectsHandlerImpl::unloadEffect: EffectsHandler::unloadEffect : Unloading Effect : "kwin4_effect_login" kwin(3129) KWin::EffectsHandlerImpl::unloadEffect: EffectsHandler::unloadEffect : Unloading Effect : "kwin4_effect_translucency" kwin(3129) KWin::EffectsHandlerImpl::unloadEffect: EffectsHandler::unloadEffect : Unloading Effect : "kwin4_effect_boxswitch" kwin(3129) KWin::EffectsHandlerImpl::unloadEffect: EffectsHandler::unloadEffect : Unloading Effect : "kwin4_effect_fadedesktop" kwin(3129) KWin::EffectsHandlerImpl::unloadEffect: EffectsHandler::unloadEffect : Unloading Effect : "kwin4_effect_desktopgrid" kwin(3129) KWin::EffectsHandlerImpl::unloadEffect: EffectsHandler::unloadEffect : Unloading Effect : "kwin4_effect_slidingpopups" kwin(3129) KWin::EffectsHandlerImpl::unloadEffect: EffectsHandler::unloadEffect : Unloading Effect : "kwin4_effect_fade" kwin(3129) KWin::EffectsHandlerImpl::unloadEffect: EffectsHandler::unloadEffect : Unloading Effect : "kwin4_effect_dialogparent" kwin(3129) KWin::EffectsHandlerImpl::unloadEffect: EffectsHandler::unloadEffect : Unloading Effect : "kwin4_effect_taskbarthumbnail" kwin(3129) KWin::EffectsHandlerImpl::unloadEffect: EffectsHandler::unloadEffect : Unloading Effect : "kwin4_effect_presentwindows" kwin(3129) KWin::EffectsHandlerImpl::unloadEffect: EffectsHandler::unloadEffect : Unloading Effect : "kwin4_effect_logout" kwin(3129) KWin::Extensions::init: Extensions: shape: 0x "11" composite: 0x "4" render: 0x "b" fixes: 0x "40" kwin(3129) KWin::Workspace::setupCompositing: Initializing OpenGL compositing kwin(3129) KWin::Workspace::setupCompositing: KWin has detected that your OpenGL library is unsafe to use, falling back to XRender. kwin(3129): Failed to initialize compositing, compositing disabled (...) so, quick googling and following entry in ~/.kde/share/config/kwinrc forces compositing again. [Compositing] AnimationSpeed=3 Backend=OpenGL CheckIsSafe=false <=== DisableChecks=true <=== Enabled=true GLDirect=true GLMode=TFP GLTextureFilter=0 GLVSync=false HiddenPreviews=5 OpenGLIsUnsafe=false <=== XRenderSmoothScale=false at this point compositing seems to work, it's still smooth but i'm observing an ugly screen blinking. modprobing drm module with debug=1 gives on 2.6.35 additional logs about vblank events during compositing: (...) [ 211.675593] [drm:drm_ioctl], pid=2842, cmd=0xc0206466, nr=0x66, dev 0xe200, auth=1 [ 211.675663] [drm:drm_ioctl], pid=2842, cmd=0xc0086464, nr=0x64, dev 0xe200, auth=1 [ 211.675674] [drm:drm_ioctl], pid=2842, cmd=0xc008646a, nr=0x6a, dev 0xe200, auth=1 [ 211.675678] [drm:drm_ioctl], ret = fffffff0 [ 211.675680] [drm:drm_ioctl], pid=2842, cmd=0xc0206466, nr=0x66, dev 0xe200, auth=1 [ 211.675724] [drm:drm_ioctl], pid=2766, cmd=0xc018643a, nr=0x3a, dev 0xe200, auth=1 [ 211.675728] [drm:drm_wait_vblank], waiting on vblank count 212705, crtc 0 [ 211.675731] [drm:drm_wait_vblank], returning 212705 to client [ 211.675734] [drm:drm_ioctl], pid=2766, cmd=0xc018643a, nr=0x3a, dev 0xe200, auth=1 [ 211.675737] [drm:drm_wait_vblank], waiting on vblank count 212705, crtc 0 [ 211.675739] [drm:drm_wait_vblank], returning 212705 to client [ 211.675741] [drm:drm_ioctl], pid=2766, cmd=0xc018643a, nr=0x3a, dev 0xe200, auth=1 [ 211.675744] [drm:drm_queue_vblank_event], event on vblank count 212706, current 212705, crtc 0 [ 211.689126] [drm:drm_handle_vblank_events], vblank event on 212706, current 212706 [ 211.689162] [drm:drm_ioctl], pid=2766, cmd=0xc008646a, nr=0x6a, dev 0xe200, auth=1 [ 211.689172] [drm:drm_ioctl], pid=2766, cmd=0xc0086464, nr=0x64, dev 0xe200, auth=1 [ 211.691457] [drm:drm_ioctl], pid=2766, cmd=0xc0206466, nr=0x66, dev 0xe200, auth=1 [ 212.214162] [drm:drm_ioctl], pid=2766, cmd=0xc008646a, nr=0x6a, dev 0xe200, auth=1 (...) is it a kernel bug or a feature? BR, Pawel. ps). i'm using following xorg/mesa packages from my distro: Mesa-dri-driver-ati-radeon-R300-7.8.2-2.x86_64 Mesa-libGL-7.8.2-2.x86_64 Mesa-libGLU-7.8.2-2.x86_64 Mesa-utils-7.8.2-2.x86_64 (...) xorg-driver-input-evdev-2.5.0-1.x86_64 xorg-driver-video-ati-6.13.2-1.x86_64 (...) xorg-lib-libdmx-1.1.0-2.x86_64 xorg-lib-libfontenc-1.0.5-1.x86_64 xorg-lib-libICE-1.0.6-1.x86_64 xorg-lib-libpciaccess-0.12.0-1.x86_64 xorg-lib-libSM-1.1.1-1.x86_64 xorg-lib-libX11-1.3.6-1.x86_64 xorg-lib-libXau-1.0.6-1.x86_64 xorg-lib-libXaw-1.0.7-3.x86_64 xorg-lib-libXcomposite-0.4.2-1.x86_64 xorg-lib-libXcursor-1.1.10-2.x86_64 xorg-lib-libXdamage-1.1.3-1.x86_64 xorg-lib-libXdmcp-1.0.3-1.x86_64 xorg-lib-libXext-1.1.2-1.x86_64 xorg-lib-libXfixes-4.0.5-1.x86_64 xorg-lib-libXfont-1.4.2-1.x86_64 xorg-lib-libXfontcache-1.0.5-2.x86_64 xorg-lib-libXft-2.1.14-2.x86_64 xorg-lib-libXi-1.3.2-1.x86_64 xorg-lib-libXinerama-1.1-2.x86_64 xorg-lib-libxkbfile-1.0.6-2.x86_64 xorg-lib-libXmu-1.0.5-2.x86_64 xorg-lib-libXp-1.0.0-5.x86_64 xorg-lib-libXpm-3.5.8-2.x86_64 xorg-lib-libXrandr-1.3.0-3.x86_64 xorg-lib-libXrender-0.9.6-1.x86_64 xorg-lib-libXres-1.0.4-2.x86_64 xorg-lib-libXScrnSaver-1.2.0-2.x86_64 xorg-lib-libXt-1.0.8-1.x86_64 xorg-lib-libXtst-1.1.0-2.x86_64 xorg-lib-libXv-1.0.5-2.x86_64 xorg-lib-libXvMC-1.0.6-1.x86_64 xorg-lib-libXxf86dga-1.1.1-2.x86_64 xorg-lib-libXxf86misc-1.0.2-2.x86_64 xorg-lib-libXxf86vm-1.1.0-2.i686 xorg-lib-libXxf86vm-1.1.0-2.x86_64 xorg-proto-kbproto-devel-1.0.5-1.x86_64 xorg-proto-xproto-devel-7.0.18-1.x86_64 xorg-xserver-libdri-1.9.0-1.x86_64 xorg-xserver-libglx-1.9.0-1.x86_64 xorg-xserver-server-1.9.0-1.x86_64