flickering BUG - Desktop Effekte and ATI - Video bugs

[Zecky]

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Under "Ubuntu 8:10" (Standard installation) flickering videos when the desktop effects (Compiz).

This is like an overlay error.
The video is compulsively in the foreground window but not the player.

You can see this if you want a different window on the video pushing wants.

In full with Death is this effect by moving the mouse (call interface) executable.

Even in games does this occur,
In full of wine, it is even completely unusable (might have to tuhen).

The worst bug is on the flickering, however.

My PC:
Ubuntu 8:10 Beta standard unchanged
AMD ATI Radion x1250 (driver of Ubuntu automatically)
2 GB of RAM - 300GB HDD

AMD Chibsatz

No manual changes from me

[Zecky (ich-zecky)]

Additional information:

After disabling all Compiz effects with the help of "ccsm" but is NOT activated Compiz bug fixed.

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After setting of "xorg.conf"
Option "video overlay" on "(and off)
Option "OpenGLOverlay" off "

In various attempts were also NIX Improved.

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Only the shutdown of Compiz helped so far.

[Dave roi (daveroi)]

I have this issue as well.
Onboard ATI graphics card.
Intrepid 64bit.

[Dave roi (daveroi)]

Happened to me both with an upgraded Hardy to intrepid and on a fresh install of Intrepid from the RC liveCD.

[Zecky (ich-zecky)]

Yes yes I use the ne x1250 is also onboard.

I will at 1.11. A NEW video card of AMD / ATI HD Series buy and test whether the new HD 4xxx gans also have.

[Michael Glukhovsky (mglukhovsky)]

Fresh install of Intrepid, using fglrx from the Restricted Drivers Manager and Compiz results in flickering video in all media players tried, with all outputs tried as well (VLC, MPlayer, Totem, with Xv, X11, GL).

I solved this problem in Hardy by editing Xorg.conf, but I'm hesitant to do so now that the use of Xorg.conf has changed in Intrepid (might mess up auto-configuration features).

This should probably be merged with this bug as well: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/289940, even though the bug cites a specific application, it makes mention of all 3D apps and video.

[Michael Glukhovsky (mglukhovsky)]

Correction: video does not flicker in Mplayer or VLC using X11 video output.

Still, this doesn't except the fact that using GL or Xv output causes flickering.

[Rowan Parker (rowanparker)]

I have an ATI Radeon HD2870 - using Ubuntu 8.10 64bit. With restricted drives (and regardless of Compiz on or off) I get the flickering too.

VLC in X11 and Mplayer both still causes flickering here. Turning off restricted drivers and it's ok.

[Martin Wimmer (martin-wimmer)]

Same problem here

ATI x1250
Intrepid 64 bit
Compiz enabled

This bug wasn't here in hardy for videos, although some games flickered there too

[BluJai (blujai)]

Additional confirmation. Flickering stops if desktop effects are disabled.
Also note that when manually manipulating the "cube" desktop effect (if enabled and using keyboard-mouse combination to manually rotate) the desktop triangles (i.e. one of the two triangles used to draw the rectangular desktop background) will also flicker. However, its flickering is between visibility and invisibility, whereas video usually flickers black or white (black I think, but I'm not at my desktop).

Intel Core i7 920
ATI Radeon HD 4850 (512 MB dedicated)
Intrepid 64-bit

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Please attach your Xorg.0.log and the output of lspci -vvnn.

Also, this is filed against the open source -ati driver, but in the comments people are discussing only the -fglrx driver. Zecky, are you using -fglrx or -ati? Please attach your Xorg.0.log and the output of lspci -vvnn.

[gfunicus (tsuther)]

same problem here, restricted fglrx, intrepid, only happens when desktop effects are enabled.

[Dommo (u-carlot-u)]

ubuntu 8.10 x86

i'm also having this problem.

lspci -vvnn output:

n@n-laptop:~$ lspci -vvnn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub [8086:27a0] (rev 03)
 Subsystem: Fujitsu Limited. Device [10cf:1378]
 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 0
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel modules: intel-agp

00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express PCI Express Root Port [8086:27a1] (rev 03)
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
 I/O behind bridge: 00002000-00002fff
 Memory behind bridge: f0000000-f00fffff
 Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000e0000000-00000000efffffff
 Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ <SERR- <PERR-
 BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA+ VGA+ MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
  PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
 Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller [8086:27d8] (rev 02)
 Subsystem: Fujitsu Limited. Device [10cf:1397]
 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21
 Region 0: Memory at f0600000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
 Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:27d0] (rev 02)
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
 Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
 Memory behind bridge: f0100000-f01fffff
 Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ <SERR- <PERR-
 BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA+ VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
  PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
 Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1c.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 [8086:27d4] (rev 02)
 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
 Bus: primary=...

[marky_doodles2000 (mark-mkpelectronics)]

Same problem here too using the -ati (restricted) driver on both hardy and intrepid. With compiz desktop effects disable video is fine, only flickers when compiz desktop effects are enabled
System:
Intel P4 3.0GHz
Radeon 9600

output of lspci -vvnn

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82875P/E7210 Memory Controller Hub [8086:2578] (rev 02)
 Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp. Device [147b:1022]
 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 0
 Region 0: Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
 Kernel modules: i82875p_edac, intel-agp

00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82875P Processor to AGP Controller [8086:2579] (rev 02)
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap- 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 64
 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=32
 I/O behind bridge: 00009000-00009fff
 Memory behind bridge: f8000000-f9ffffff
 Prefetchable memory behind bridge: d0000000-efffffff
 Secondary status: 66MHz+ FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ <SERR- <PERR-
 BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA+ VGA+ MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
  PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
 Kernel modules: shpchp

00:06.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation 82875P/E7210 Processor to I/O Memory Interface [8086:257e] (rev 02)
 Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp. Device [147b:1022]
 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Region 0: Memory at fecf0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:24d2] (rev 02)
 Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp. Device [147b:1022]
 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 0
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
 Region 4: I/O ports at bc00 [size=32]
 Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
 Kernel modules: uhci-hcd

00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:24d4] (rev 02)
 Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp. Device [147b:1022]
 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 0
 Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 19
 Region 4: I/O ports at b000 [size=32]
 Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
 Kernel modules: uhci-hcd

00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:24d7] (rev 02)
 Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp. Device [147b:102...