[gm45] Glitches appears sometimes on screen. Intel GMA 4500MHD

[Fábio Lima]

Binary package hint: xorg

It affects overall system with with flicks and glitches on screen happening sometimes. Video and 3D effects works fine.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: xorg 1:7.5+3ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-19.28-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: b9ce55731bce4169eec9caa859a2d3c7
CheckboxSystem: 2954e74ba17fb0e37fc942cd1d9fab4e
Date: Sun Apr 4 18:03:24 2010
DkmsStatus:
 vboxnetflt, 3.1.6, 2.6.32-19-generic, x86_64: installed
 vboxnetadp, 3.1.6, 2.6.32-19-generic, x86_64: installed
 vboxdrv, 3.1.6, 2.6.32-19-generic, x86_64: installed
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100318)
MachineType: Acer Aspire 5738
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-19-generic root=UUID=851b6071-6591-4371-8758-316345230ac6 ro splash quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=pt_BR:pt:en
 LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
dmi.bios.date: 08/17/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD
dmi.bios.version: V1.16
dmi.board.name: JV50
dmi.board.vendor: Acer
dmi.board.version: Rev
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologiesLTD:bvrV1.16:bd08/17/2009:svnAcer:pnAspire5738:pvr0100:rvnAcer:rnJV50:rvrRev:cvnAcer:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: Aspire 5738
dmi.product.version: 0100
dmi.sys.vendor: Acer
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] Arquivo ou diretório não encontrado
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: lucid
 architecture: x86_64
 kernel: 2.6.32-19-generic

[lspci]
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a42] (rev 07)
     Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0205]

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Can you please take a photo of the screen showing the corruption you're seeing, and attach it to this bug report?

[Fábio Lima (fhl)]

Unfortunately can't reproduce that because is something that appeared on the LCD monitor, not at painting of the images.
And since some days didn't notice It happening anymore. I guess it was corrected by one of those many updates.

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

Tentatively marking as fixed. If this turns out not to be fixed, please reopen it and attach a picture (either a screenshot, or an image from a camera, or a short video clip) so we can see precisely what's happening.

[Alex Watson (alexfromapex)]

Also affects me with:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

Alex: As you've got different hardware, I suspect that you're actually seeing bug #538648.

[Fábio Lima (fhl)]

The descriptions seems very similar. I've noticed someone have posted a video. It's a bit a different: my flickering appeared very quickly. And since some weeks ago, it became real rare to happen.

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

Could you also try adding “i915.powersave=0” to the kernel boot line, as in bug #538648? I think this is probably a duplicate.

[Darius (evazq)]

i have an issue you can see an example here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSPS7y6MCXc

the issue are not the scan lines
the glitch is the issue

i'm ussing the same video card and running unbuntu 10.04

[Darius (evazq)]

i have this grapic card

lspci | grep -i intel

   1.
      00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 09)
   2.
      00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
   3.
      00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
   4.
      00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
   5.
      00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
   6.
      00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
   7.
      00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
   8.
      00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
   9.
      00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
  10.
      00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
  11.
      00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03)
  12.
      00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
  13.
      00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
  14.
      00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
  15.
      00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
  16.
      00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
  17.
      00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
  18.
      00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
  19.
      00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
  20.
      00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) Thermal Subsystem (rev 03)
  21.
      04:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
  22.
      05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 PCI-E Ethernet Controller (rev b0)
  23.
      07:00.0 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. SD/MMC Host Controller
  24.
      07:00.2 SD Host controller: JMicron Technology Corp. Standard SD Host Controller
  25.
      07:00.3 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. MS Host Controller
  26.
      07:00.4 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. xD Host Controller

lsmod | egrep -i "i..5"
i915 282354 3
drm_kms_helper 29297 1 i915
drm 162471 4 i915,drm_kms_helper
intel_agp 24177 2 i915
i2c_algo_bit 5028 1 i915
video 17375 1 i915

[Fábio Lima (fhl)]

Wow! That's It. You've got it!

That's exactaly what I keep experiencing.

[Javier Pereira (japelu)]

I have the same error after upgrading to 10.04. This error was not present in 9.10.

[Javier Pereira (japelu)]

Just in case I'm using a Sony Vaio VGN-NW150J with an Intel GMA 4500HD graphics card.

[Dušan Miletić (karl3)]

I'm experiencing it as well on Asus UL30VT (GMA 4500HD & Nvidia G210M, Nvidia being turned off). Everything works OK when I turn off Compiz.

Although both video and 3D work ok, these glitches are much more annoying then they seem at first sight. I'm really looking forward seeing this fixed soon.

[Jens Bergqvist (ubuntu-bergqvist)]

Has there been any development on this issue? I have the same problem on an ASUS PRO32A QX179X (basically the same as an UL30A) with Intel GMA 4500MHD graphics. What information can I provide to help? It's a really annoying bug...

[grigori (gexi-deactivatedaccount)]

I still seem to have this Problem on a Lenovo 510SL which uses an Intel GMA 4500HD. Just a short screen flicker. Like in the video. First i thought it had to do with overheating, but frequency of the occurring flicker stayed the same, no matter how warm the laptop would get.

[grigori (gexi-deactivatedaccount)]

I think adding «i915.powersave=0» to the kernel boot line might just have done the trick. i've been using the laptop for 2-3 hours now and haven't experienced any annoying screen glitches or flickers.

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