Metacity + compositing cause display corruption and artifact

[ikus060]

Binary package hint: metacity

When using Metacity + compositing in Ubuntu Jaunty, I can't manage to work more than 1 hours without getting display corruption or artifact. Those artifact seams to appear randomly and disappear when the windows or screen are invalidate.

The following attachment file present a screenshot of the screen. I guess it's the best way to explain the problem.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: metacity 1:2.25.144-0ubuntu2.1
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
SourcePackage: metacity
Uname: Linux 2.6.29-02062903-generic i686

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, do you get the same with compiz? it looks like a video issue, which video card and driver are you using? Could you attach your xorg.conf file to the report? Thanks in advance.

[ikus060 (ikus060-renamed)]

Using Compiz, I don't see any artifact.

My video card is a Radeon Mobitility X300 (M22). At this time I'm running radeon-rewrite driver (because it's more responsive). Other than that, I have the problem with what ever radeon driver I'm using.

[etbsb1 (etbsb1)]

I've been trying to diagnose an annoying display problem with my Radeon Mobility 7500c. I have a bug open at Freedesktop.org, but it just occurred to me today to consider compositing as a factor along with the driver.

See https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22256
for attachments and screenshots.

I wonder if there's some unfriendly interaction between compositing software and some Radeon Mobility chipsets?

I turned off compositing earlier (at least, I think it's off now), and my display seems better so far. It's too early to say for sure, unfortunately.

 I thought it might be helpful to cross post this information if the issues are indeed related. I hope this may be of use.

[etbsb1 (etbsb1)]

As Emily Litella often said, "Never mind."

My particular issue appeared to be a hardware failure after all.

Now, carry on!

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report ikus060 , It has been a long time without any comment or a duplicate in this bug report and It is possible that the bug has been fixed. May you please try to reproduce it with the latest Stable Release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal and add the respective comments to the report? You can learn how to get that release at http://www.ubuntu.com/download . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.