VIA Unichrome - starting spiftacity freezes X server

[laksdjfaasdf]

Flight 4 - with
ii xserver-xorg-air-core 0.99-0ubuntu1 X
ii spiftacity 2.13.89-0ubuntu3

I stopped GDM, made a symlink from /usr/bin/Xorg-air to /usr/bin/X and restarted GDM.

Gnome starts fine but as soon as I type in "spiftacity --replace" the X server freezes.

I created a boolean GConf value "compositing_manager" and set it to true.

Xorg-air starts and I started Tuxracer for example to test if I have 3D acceleration which is there. Only some pixel artifacts in the game.

I attach log files.

[laksdjfaasdf (laksdjfaasdf)]

Although it says I have no direct rendering I can play Tuxracer with 3D acceleration under Xorg-air.

[laksdjfaasdf (laksdjfaasdf)]

xorg.conf with enabled composite.

[laksdjfaasdf (laksdjfaasdf)]

Xorg.0.log - I have a VIA Unichrome KM400 chipset.

[DominikBodi (dominik-bodi)]

can you re-test this with edgy please?

[DominikBodi (dominik-bodi)]

mis-click caused bug to open against a second package. sorry.

[laksdjfaasdf (laksdjfaasdf)]

Under Edgy X server does not freeze any more but spiftacity exits with an error message which I attach.

I can see black boxes around my windows but after about half a second spiftacity stops with the message.

[laksdjfaasdf (laksdjfaasdf)]

The last error message appeared after setting compositing_manager to true in gconf-editor.

When I start spiftacity with compositing_manager set to true I get black borders around my windows and my windows turn white.

I have to stop it with calling metacity --replace.

I attach the other error message while calling spiftacity with already set compositing_manager.

Seems that my VIA Unichrome KM400 graphic card is not good enough for spiftacity nor Compiz with AIGLX...

[DominikBodi (dominik-bodi)]

I'm afraid you should not expect any kind of decent 3D/OpenGL graphics performance from a Unichrome chipset. From first glance, it looks that the driver for the chipset doesn't support certain opengl features needed by spiftacity. That's not certain, though. A second possibility is that drm/dri failed to initialise properly. I'd appreciate it if you could provide me with a new Xorg.0.log and a dump of glxinfo output for edgy.

Additionally, could you please run some of the applications mentioned in bug #43154 and tell me if they crash your box, please?

Regards,
Dominik

[laksdjfaasdf (laksdjfaasdf)]

Yes the all applications mentioned in bug #43154 run without problems here. They do NOT freeze my system.

The only thing which crashes in higher resolutions is torcs. But it does NOT freeze my system.

[DominikBodi (dominik-bodi)]

Thank you for the additional files. It looks like the driver of the card does not support certain opengl features spiftacity seems to rely on. I'm not an x driver export bug it seems this is a bug in either the driver or spiftacity. I will look for upstream bugs at the freedesktop.org bugzilla and see if they know of this problem already.

[DominikBodi (dominik-bodi)]

Since none of the other opengl applications seem to have problems, I think this is a bug in spiftacity. Status set to "Needs Info" and assigned to the maintainer of the spiftacity package for now. Let's see what Matthew has to say about this.

[DominikBodi (dominik-bodi)]

Unconfirmed is the right tag. Sorry.

[DominikBodi (dominik-bodi)]

Felix, could you re-test this with gutsy-beta please?

[laksdjfaasdf (laksdjfaasdf)]

@DominikBodi: I'm sorry but my laptop with VIA graphic card is broken. I don't think that I can repair it :(

I have a new Thinkpad with Intel GMA 950 - it's a dream compared to that VIA graphic card stuff. I will never buy any VIA graphic cards any more!

[judepereira (judebpereira)]

Hey, I'm using Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbons.
I have a problem about my Graphic Driver. Whenever I do lspci , it shows
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev
06)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
00:11.6 Communication controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 80)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology
Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. S3 Unichrome Pro VGA Adapter (rev 01)

      It states that I should use S3 Unichrome driver but whenever I use it, I can't open some apps like
amarok, etc. with it. Even glxgears does not work. They all result in a hard lockup of my computer and then I have to restart it. The Video motion is perfect.
      On the other hand, whenever I use VESA generic driver, everything works well, but when I play any kind
of Video, the Video does not play correctly, It keeps on refreshing slowly like if you have a slow internet
and you try to VNC someone's machine, the video motion breaks,
      Any suggestions are very helpful.
      Thanks in Advance!!!

[Nathan Handler (nhandler)]

Thank you for reporting this bug. spiftacity has been removed from the Ubuntu repositories (LP: #137680). This means that this bug is no longer valid. As a result, I am setting the status of this bug to 'Invalid'.