[arrandale] Strange artifacts related to the xorg's intel driver

[chreko]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-intel

Here the details:

1.) Some areas in the GUIs of my wine applications appear as black areas. This bug has been reported here (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30157) and here (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24430) and appear to be related to Xorg's Intel driver (2.12).

2.) The pull-down menus of the main panel or any window's menu fail to appear after a first click. It usually needs a second click to show up.

I have a notebook with integrated Intel core GPU and a discrete ATI Radeon GPU (HD 5600 series). The two issues mentioned above only occurred while using the integrated Intel core GPU.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: xorg 1:7.5+6ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-25.44-generic 2.6.35.10
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-25-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: amd64
DRM.card0.DisplayPort.1:
 status: disconnected
 enabled: disabled
 dpms: On
 modes:
 edid-base64:
DRM.card0.HDMI_Type_A.1:
 status: disconnected
 enabled: disabled
 dpms: On
 modes:
 edid-base64:
DRM.card0.LVDS.2:
 status: connected
 enabled: enabled
 dpms: On
 modes: 1600x900 1440x900 1280x854 1280x800 1280x720 1152x768 1024x768 800x600 848x480 720x480 640x480
 edid-base64:
DRM.card1.LVDS.1:
 status: connected
 enabled: enabled
 dpms: On
 modes: 1600x900
 edid-base64: AP///////wAwZAkOAQEBARoUAQOAIBJ4CiuFpFVJpicJUFQAAAABAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBHCpAfmGEBzBAQBEAQrUQAAAYAAAADwAECAQIAAABAXPCAgUAAAAA/gBUTURJU1BMQVkKICAgAAAA/gBMVDE0NUVFMTUwMDAKAF8=
DRM.card1.VGA.1:
 status: disconnected
 enabled: disabled
 dpms: On
 modes:
 edid-base64:
Date: Wed Feb 16 07:50:12 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
Lsusb:
 Bus 002 Device 003: ID 174f:1414 Syntek
 Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP ENVY 14 Notebook PC
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-25-generic root=UUID=1cda5884-c6ee-4d63-b3b3-0c4b5d691d34 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
dmi.bios.date: 07/21/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: F.06
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: 1436
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: KBC Version 59.1F
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: CNU0302274
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrF.06:bd07/21/2010:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPENVY14NotebookPC:pvr0492100000241910000620000:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn1436:rvrKBCVersion59.1F:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: HP ENVY 14 Notebook PC
dmi.product.version: 0492100000241910000620000
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: maverick
 architecture: x86_64
 kernel: 2.6.35-25-generic

[lspci]
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0046] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
     Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:1436]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Redwood [Radeon HD 5600 Series] [1002:68c1] (rev ff) (prog-if ff)
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Architecture: amd64
DistroCodename: natty
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
DistroVariant: ubuntu
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.14.0-4ubuntu7.1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Tags: natty running-unity ubuntu
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
UnreportableReason: Please work this issue through technical support channels first.
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[bugbot (bugbot)]

Hey chreko,

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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[bugbot (bugbot)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.

[bean520 (beanie-man-520)]

Reopened, as this problem is still ongoing, and it is not just Wine that is affected. some have reported Blender to also be affected by this bug

[chreko (chreko)]

apport information

[chreko (chreko)]

I confirm that this problem is still there even on Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal.

[bean520 (beanie-man-520)]

This bug is quite prevalent in Wine apps. Firefox (Wine) and Internet Explorer also show symptoms

[bean520 (beanie-man-520)]

Perhaps it should be noted that this is a regression bug and did not affect some of the older versions of the driver?

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Bug #602899 and #622068 also link to freedesktop-bugs #30157, so this may be dupes with those.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Upstream has closed the bug as fixed by removing the 3d pipeline for core rendering (855ced5a4eb67e287001ae22cb6489639c548cfa) - this is a ~300 line patch which mostly deletes a bunch of code. It's unclear to me how safe this is, so not certain if this could be considered SRU-worthy.

Patch is attached if anyone wants to give it a try. Might need some massaging to get it to apply to natty's -intel.

[bean520 (beanie-man-520)]

I can confirm fix. Seems fairly stable, no regressions noticed

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

I think for a proper SRU, this patch should be reworked a bit. Instead of simply deleting the code it should conditionalize it with a driver option that can be set in xorg.conf and that is disabled by default. That way, if other people find it is indeed needed, they will be able to flip it back on.

However, even if this is done it's not clear this is going to be free of regression. Sarvatt indicates that the optimization improved performance for xterm users, so presumably there would be a performance impact for them. We don't know how big an impact that would be though.

[Sameer Morar (smorar)]

This bug has been fixed in Oneiric in #803012.