[Natty] Every video tears with ATI Xpress 200M

[Lollerke]

Under Unity 2D and Ubuntu Classic without effects. Tried different video outputs and different players (Mplayer, VLC, Totem) , but nothing helps (except enabling UMS where the Overlay Video Output is available, but UMS is very unstable for me).

xvinfo:

"X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0
  Adaptor #0: "Radeon Textured Video"
    number of ports: 16
    port base: 63
    operations supported: PutImage
    supported visuals:
      depth 24, visualID 0x21
    number of attributes: 9
      "XV_BICUBIC" (range 0 to 2)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 0)
      "XV_VSYNC" (range 0 to 1)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 1)"

xorg.log:

"[ 6860.117] (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5A62 (PCIE)" (ChipID = 0x5a62)
[ 6860.118] (II) RADEON(0): KMS Color Tiling: enabled
[ 6860.118] (II) RADEON(0): KMS Pageflipping: enabled
[ 6860.118] (II) RADEON(0): SwapBuffers wait for vsync: enabled"

syslog:

"[ 14.213289] [drm] radeon defaulting to kernel modesetting.
[ 14.213294] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled.
[ 14.213424] radeon 0000:01:05.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 14.217593] [drm] initializing kernel modesetting (RS400 0x1002:0x5A62).
[ 14.217659] [drm] register mmio base: 0xC0000000
[ 14.217662] [drm] register mmio size: 65536
[ 14.217967] [drm] Generation 2 PCI interface, using max accessible memory
[ 14.217978] radeon 0000:01:05.0: VRAM: 128M 0x0000000058000000 - 0x000000005FFFFFFF (128M used)
[ 14.217984] radeon 0000:01:05.0: GTT: 512M 0x0000000060000000 - 0x000000007FFFFFFF
[ 14.218004] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 1 (10.10.2010).
[ 14.218007] [drm] Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query.
[ 14.218085] [drm] radeon: irq initialized.
[ 14.219996] [drm] Detected VRAM RAM=128M, BAR=256M
[ 14.220052] [drm] RAM width 128bits DDR
[ 14.220190] [TTM] Zone kernel: Available graphics memory: 440470 kiB.
[ 14.220193] [TTM] Zone highmem: Available graphics memory: 705946 kiB.
[ 14.220196] [TTM] Initializing pool allocator.
[ 14.220229] [drm] radeon: 128M of VRAM memory ready
[ 14.220233] [drm] radeon: 512M of GTT memory ready.
[ 14.220280] [drm] GART: num cpu pages 131072, num gpu pages 131072
[ 14.248552] [drm] radeon: 1 quad pipes, 1 z pipes initialized.
[ 14.256465] radeon 0000:01:05.0: WB enabled
[ 14.256721] [drm] Loading R300 Microcode
[ 14.260751] [drm] radeon: ring at 0x0000000060001000
[ 14.260782] [drm] ring test succeeded in 1 usecs
[ 14.261002] [drm] radeon: ib pool ready.
[ 14.261113] [drm] ib test succeeded in 0 usecs
[ 14.261806] [drm] Panel ID String: LPL
[ 14.261810] [drm] Panel Size 1280x800"

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: linux-image-2.6.38-8-generic 2.6.38-8.42
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
AplayDevices:
 **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC861-VD Analog [ALC861-VD Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC861-VD Analog [ALC861-VD Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: balazs 1476 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] Nincs ilyen fájl vagy könyvtár
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'SB'/'HDA ATI SB at 0xc0400000 irq 40'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC861-VD'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0862,1179820d,00100001 HDA:11c11040,11790001,00100200'
   Controls : 18
   Simple ctrls : 11
Date: Tue May 10 18:21:21 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
Lsusb:
 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 002 Device 005: ID 0603:00f2 Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
 Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0458:003a KYE Systems Corp. (Mouse Systems) NetScroll+ Mini Traveler
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: TOSHIBA Satellite L30
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=hu_HU:en
 LANG=hu_HU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=UUID=d306fe42-edcd-4237-8220-d85dbf283f13 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-restricted-modules-2.6.38-8-generic N/A
 linux-backports-modules-2.6.38-8-generic N/A
 linux-firmware 1.52
RfKill:
 0: phy0: Wireless LAN
  Soft blocked: no
  Hard blocked: no
SourcePackage: linux
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 08/17/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.bios.version: V3.00
dmi.board.name: Satellite L30
dmi.board.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.board.version: Not Applicable
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnTOSHIBA:bvrV3.00:bd08/17/2007:svnTOSHIBA:pnSatelliteL30:pvrPSL33E-00E00XHU:rvnTOSHIBA:rnSatelliteL30:rvrNotApplicable:cvnTOSHIBA:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: Satellite L30
dmi.product.version: PSL33E-00E00XHU
dmi.sys.vendor: TOSHIBA

[Lollerke (pumba88)]

Creating an Xorg.conf file with

Option "EXAVSync" "True"

solves this problem.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Lollerke, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? If so, could you please try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect 780624

[bugbot (bugbot)]

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