Screen Corruption i915 Intel video

[Juancarlo An~ez]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-intel

The status bar icons, the menus they display, and parts of pages in Firefox show corruption in the form of horizontal bars of noise. The status bar corruption happens since login. This problem remains after having performed all the post-beta-1 updates.

[Juancarlo An~ez (apalala)]

More information:

- The noise is always at the bottom of something: icons, images, lines of rendered text. Never at the top or sides.
- It happens in all programs, but not with the same consistency or frequency.
- (just speculation from observation) The problem may be within the scrolling of screen (bitmap) regions. The bottom part seems to be left out.

[newuser (newuser)]

Same bug with Intel 82865g

https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-2d/+bug/747819

[PaulN (paulne)]

See also bugs #753027 and #750964

[PaulN (paulne)]

Title bar problem screen shot with 11.04 beta 1 current as of 8 April with kubuntu

[PaulN (paulne)]

Context menus and right click menus are similarly corrupt but very hard to capture as an image. Suggestions?

[PaulN (paulne)]

Example of right click context menu on background.

[newuser (newuser)]

I temporarily solved my problem (Intel 865G) by installing the latest Intel graphics driver from xorg-edgers PPA at: https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa

I just installed the package: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.14.902+git20110408.97e95576-0ubuntu0sarvatt

[NoOp (glgxg)]

Still present in 12.04:
*-display:0
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 09
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
       resources: irq:44 memory:d0000000-d03fffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff ioport:5110(size=8)

$ lsmod | grep intel
snd_hda_intel 33773 3
snd_hda_codec 127706 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm 97188 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd 78855 16 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
snd_page_alloc 18529 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pc

$ apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-video-intel
xserver-xorg-video-intel:
  Installed: 2:2.17.0-1ubuntu4.2
  Candidate: 2:2.17.0-1ubuntu4.2
  Version table:
 *** 2:2.17.0-1ubuntu4.2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2:2.17.0-1ubuntu4 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Chris Wilson (ickle)]

Please verify the fixes present in raring.

[NoOp (glgxg)]

As mentioned in Comment #9, this issue is still present in 12.04:

$ apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-video-intel
xserver-xorg-video-intel:
  Installed: 2:2.17.0-1ubuntu4.4
  Candidate: 2:2.17.0-1ubuntu4.4
  Version table:
 *** 2:2.17.0-1ubuntu4.4 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2:2.17.0-1ubuntu4 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

NoOp: the original 12.04 stack won't get updates, install 'xserver-xorg-lts-raring' if you want to install the stack on 13.04, which is also the default on the 12.04.3 install images.

[Juancarlo An~ez (apalala)]

I installed 13.10 through upgrade, so I don't know about a clean install.
Maybe later.

On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 1:44 AM, Timo Aaltonen <email address hidden> wrote:

> NoOp: the original 12.04 stack won't get updates, install 'xserver-xorg-
> lts-raring' if you want to install the stack on 13.04, which is also the
> default on the 12.04.3 install images.
>
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> Title:
> Screen Corruption i915 Intel video
>
> Status in “xserver-xorg-video-intel” package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-intel
>
> The status bar icons, the menus they display, and parts of pages in
> Firefox show corruption in the form of horizontal bars of noise. The
> status bar corruption happens since login. This problem remains after
> having performed all the post-beta-1 updates.
>
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[NoOp (glgxg)]

@Timo: thanks Timo.
Yesterday I switched to xorg-edgers & that seems to be working. Later today I'll pp-purge that and try the 'xserver-xorg-lts-raring' method.

$ apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-video-intel
xserver-xorg-video-intel:
  Installed: 2:2.21.15+git20130821.f57ce6ef-0ubuntu0sarvatt~precise
  Candidate: 2:2.21.15+git20130821.f57ce6ef-0ubuntu0sarvatt~precise
  Version table:
 *** 2:2.21.15+git20130821.f57ce6ef-0ubuntu0sarvatt~precise 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/xorg-edgers/ppa/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2:2.17.0-1ubuntu4.4 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main amd64 Packages
     2:2.17.0-1ubuntu4 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages

[NoOp (glgxg)]

Timo: Thank again!
xserver-xorg-lts-raring appears to working just fine.
$ apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-lts-raring
xserver-xorg-lts-raring:
  Installed: 1:7.7+1ubuntu4~precise1
  Candidate: 1:7.7+1ubuntu4~precise1
  Version table:
 *** 1:7.7+1ubuntu4~precise1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

For others that read this bug comment, see:
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack>
for information on xserver-xorg-lts-raring.
I installed via:

sudo apt-get install --install-recommends xserver-xorg-lts-raring
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg-lts-raring

xserver-xorg-video-intel is not used at all:
$ apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-video-intel
xserver-xorg-video-intel:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2:2.17.0-1ubuntu4.4
  Version table:
     2:2.17.0-1ubuntu4.4 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2:2.17.0-1ubuntu4 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages

[NoOp (glgxg)]

Short lived euphoria...

Loading up memory (opening SeaMonkey, Firefox, Konquer, Chromium, Opera, and VMPlayer w/WinXP guest) created the issue again. Attached screenshot.