Some parts of the screen are not updated

[frapell]

Sections of the screen (randomly) are not properly updated when changed. This is very annoying since i have to minimize/maximize the affected window to force the "refreshing".

This happens esporadically and sometimes scrolling up and down a bit, or minimizing and restoring, or moving, etc. force to refresh that specific part of the screen.

I think this could be a bug in the 64 bit version of the display driver, since i have a friend which owns the exact same notebook (we bought it together, it's a Thinkpad Edge 13'' (Intel Version) model 0196, which comes with an Intel 4500 MHD chipset ) and he installed Ubuntu 32-bit and he doesn't experience this.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: linux-image-2.6.35-24-generic 2.6.35-24.42
Regression: No
Reproducible: Yes
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-24.42-generic 2.6.35.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-24-generic x86_64
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: CONEXANT Analog [CONEXANT Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: frapell 1774 F.... pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf0800000 irq 48'
   Mixer name : 'Intel Cantiga HDMI'
   Components : 'HDA:14f15066,17aa21b4,00100300 HDA:80862802,80860101,00100000'
   Controls : 12
   Simple ctrls : 7
Card29.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:29 'ThinkPadEC'/'ThinkPad Console Audio Control at EC reg 0x30, fw 6YHT21WW-1.166000'
   Mixer name : 'ThinkPad EC 6YHT21WW-1.166000'
   Components : ''
   Controls : 1
   Simple ctrls : 1
Card29.Amixer.values:
 Simple mixer control 'Console',0
   Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
   Playback channels: Mono
   Mono: Playback [on]
Date: Tue Jan 25 22:14:08 2011
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=7641694b-fc9a-4510-ace0-8d0e858b6687
HotplugNewDevices:

HotplugNewMounts:

InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
MachineType: LENOVO 0196A13
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-24-generic root=UUID=7ac5794f-c93a-422a-9083-e95982d262b3 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=es_AR
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=es_AR.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.38
SourcePackage: linux
Symptom: storage
UdevMonitorLog:
 monitor will print the received events for:
 UDEV - the event which udev sends out after rule processing
UdisksMonitorLog: Monitoring activity from the disks daemon. Press Ctrl+C to cancel.
dmi.bios.date: 03/05/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 6YET29WW (1.12 )
dmi.board.name: 0196A13
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr6YET29WW(1.12):bd03/05/2010:svnLENOVO:pn0196A13:pvrThinkPadEdge:rvnLENOVO:rn0196A13:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 0196A13
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad Edge
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO

[lspci]
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a40] (rev 07)
     Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:21b4]
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a42] (rev 07) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
     Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:21b4]

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

Hi frapell,

If you could also please test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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[frapell (frapell)]

Hi, i followed the documentation and installed http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.35.10-maverick/

Problem still persist, i'm not sure, but i think is less frequent.

I'm attaching 2 pictures showing the problem a bit better:

First of all, they are photos and not screenshots, because when i tried to take a screenshot the whole screen updates and the problem dissapear

As you can see, i'm in the desktop preferences, and when i switch to "Mouse Actions" the right part of the screen doesn't get updated. When i hover the mouse, it does, and it gets repainted with what is actually there.

[frapell (frapell)]

This is another photo, without the mouse tooltip

[Konstantin Plotnikov (kostyapl)]

I've exact the same problem with Linux Mint 10 KDE (it is based on Ubuntu 10.10).
I've installed update of xserver-xorg-video-intel from the x-swat ppa and everithing is ok now.
I followed recommendations on this page: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=109&t=66815&p=390095#p388593

[madbiologist (me-again)]

I _thought_ this sounded like a video driver bug.

frapell - Does Konstantin's solution work for you?

[frapell (frapell)]

I cannot test, because i'm using Debian now...

i can, however, tell you, that in the time i was experiencing this issue, I tried ubuntu 32-bit, Arch and Debian (All with KDE), and i didn't experience the issue at all. So it might be something with the 64-bit driver.

kind regards.

[bugbot (bugbot)]

Hey frapell,

Thanks for your interest in Ubuntu.

Thanks for testing maverick during its development period. Unfortunately it looks like this bug report didn't get attention during the maverick development period. But I see there's not been more comments on the bug since the release, which makes me wonder if this is still an issue for you?

If you've not seen this issue since maverick's release yourself, it may have been solved by kernel or X or other updates that occurred late in the release; if so, would you mind please closing the bug for us? Go to the URL mentioned in this bug report, click the yellow icon(s) in the status column and set to 'Fix Released'.

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[frapell (frapell)]

As i said before, i'm no longer using Ubuntu, so i don't know if this is still happening.

I'm marking it "Invalid" as requested.

Cheers,