Activity log for bug #96991

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2007-03-27 15:09:59 Alexander Jones bug added bug
2007-03-27 15:10:19 Alexander Jones bug added attachment 'mental.png' (Screenshot)
2007-03-27 18:16:45 Emilio Pozuelo Monfort None: statusexplanation
2007-06-18 23:04:16 Bryce Harrington xserver-xorg-video-ati: status Unconfirmed Needs Info
2007-06-18 23:04:16 Bryce Harrington xserver-xorg-video-ati: statusexplanation Hi Alex, thanks for reporting this bug. Can you attach your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log files?
2007-07-09 16:07:58 AJ bug added attachment 'TornWindowText.jpg' (Screenshot of Broken/Torn window)
2007-07-09 16:25:18 AJ bug added attachment 'Screenshot.jpeg' (Here's my old screenshot of 3D plugin using Beryl)
2007-08-08 17:19:02 Alexander Jones bug added attachment 'xorg.conf' (/etc/X11/xorg.conf)
2007-08-08 17:19:33 Alexander Jones bug added attachment 'Xorg.0.log' (/var/log/Xorg.0.log)
2007-08-08 17:20:05 Alexander Jones xserver-xorg-video-ati: status Incomplete New
2007-08-08 17:20:05 Alexander Jones xserver-xorg-video-ati: statusexplanation Hi Alex, thanks for reporting this bug. Can you attach your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log files? Attached
2007-09-30 14:44:18 Tormod Volden xserver-xorg-video-ati: status New Confirmed
2008-02-07 15:20:55 Timo Aaltonen xserver-xorg-video-ati: importance Undecided Wishlist
2008-02-20 03:01:13 Bryce Harrington description If I run glxgears or anything that uses 3D while running Compiz, it's pretty obvious that the graphics hardware is just rendering straight on top of the screen rather than to a window. In windowed mode, the rendering stays always on top, and moving a window causes a stale rendering to be left behind. In fullscreen mode, windows underneath cause a flickering effect. This is on R350/radeon hardware. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Tue Mar 27 15:57:27 2007 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04 Uname: Linux flash 2.6.20-13-generic #2 SMP Sun Mar 25 00:21:25 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux If I run glxgears or anything that uses 3D while running Compiz, it's pretty obvious that the graphics hardware is just rendering straight on top of the screen rather than to a window. In windowed mode, the rendering stays always on top, and moving a window causes a stale rendering to be left behind. In fullscreen mode, windows underneath cause a flickering effect. This is on R350/radeon hardware. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Tue Mar 27 15:57:27 2007 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04 Uname: Linux flash 2.6.20-13-generic #2 SMP Sun Mar 25 00:21:25 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux ----- Issues with Composite and 3D are widely reported and show themselves in a variety of contexts, but all are derived from the same root problem. 3D apps wish to do direct rendering in order to maximize performance, but Compiz wishes to retain control over how all windows are painted and doesn't work well when apps are rendering directly. Thus, what's needed is a method to redirect these directly rendering apps. Redirected direct rendering is nicely described in this blog post: http://hoegsberg.blogspot.com/2007/08/redirected-direct-rendering.html The general effect is that when Compiz is active, running a 3D app like glxgears will show rendering errors when moving the glxgears window or putting it behind or over other windows. The standard workaround is to disable compiz while using the 3D programs and re-enable it when done. This is a general problem in X's core architecture, and not an issue particular to a given driver. It's not exactly Compiz's fault either, and unfortunately it lacks a mechanism to hide or work around the problem. Solving it requires modification of a number of components including adding the TTM memory manager to libdrm, modifications of DRI in X, and on and on. It represents a significant amount of work to be done upstream and will probably take on the order of a year or two to get everything sorted out.
2008-02-20 03:01:13 Bryce Harrington name redirected-direct-rendering
2008-02-20 03:01:13 Bryce Harrington title 3D stuff breaks with Compiz 3D stuff breaks with Compiz: Redirected Direct Rendering is needed in DRI
2008-02-20 03:15:33 Bryce Harrington xorg-server: status Confirmed Triaged
2008-02-20 03:15:33 Bryce Harrington xorg-server: milestone later
2008-04-27 13:21:13 Oliver Mattos bug added attachment 'unnamed' (unnamed)
2008-05-14 02:16:50 Bryce Harrington xorg-server: milestone later intrepid-alpha-5
2008-05-27 20:16:09 Bryce Harrington bug assigned to xorg-server
2008-05-27 20:23:33 Bug Watch Updater xorg-server: status Unknown Confirmed
2008-05-30 13:45:15 Oliver Mattos bug added attachment 'unnamed' (unnamed)
2008-06-10 08:14:49 Bug Watch Updater xorg-server: status Confirmed Fix Released
2008-07-18 13:26:41 Bryce Harrington xorg-server: milestone intrepid-alpha-5 later
2008-09-05 02:44:16 Brian Murray displayname Bug #96991 (redirected-direct-rendering) Bug #96991
2008-09-05 02:44:16 Brian Murray name redirected-direct-rendering
2009-02-13 15:19:00 Davidiam xorg-server: status Triaged Fix Released
2009-02-13 15:19:00 Davidiam xorg-server: statusexplanation Status update: Unfortunately things do not look good. Upstream has changed their mind, and instead of pursuing the TTM memory manager (which turned out to be too complex) are instead going to develop a new memory manager called GEM. The timeframe for seeing GEM released for our use doesn't meet the Intrepid schedule. We're hoping to see it for Intrepid+1, but we will see. Please see the following article and its associated links for more details: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjUyMQ
2009-02-13 22:06:31 Brian Rogers bug assigned to xserver-xorg-video-intel
2009-02-16 06:00:35 Saivann Carignan bug assigned to xf86-video-ati
2009-02-26 09:52:00 Bryce Harrington bug assigned to xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu)
2009-02-26 09:52:19 Bryce Harrington bug assigned to xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu)
2009-02-26 09:52:42 Bryce Harrington bug assigned to xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Ubuntu)
2009-02-26 09:52:58 Bryce Harrington xserver-xorg-video-ati: status New Triaged
2009-02-26 09:52:58 Bryce Harrington xserver-xorg-video-ati: importance Undecided High
2009-02-26 09:52:58 Bryce Harrington xserver-xorg-video-ati: statusexplanation
2009-02-26 09:53:09 Bryce Harrington xserver-xorg-video-intel: status New In Progress
2009-02-26 09:53:09 Bryce Harrington xserver-xorg-video-intel: statusexplanation
2009-02-26 09:53:27 Bryce Harrington xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: status New Triaged
2009-02-26 09:53:27 Bryce Harrington xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: importance Undecided High
2009-02-26 09:53:27 Bryce Harrington xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: statusexplanation
2009-02-26 09:53:39 Bryce Harrington xf86-video-ati: status New Invalid
2009-02-26 09:53:39 Bryce Harrington xf86-video-ati: statusexplanation
2009-02-26 09:53:50 Bryce Harrington xserver-xorg-video-intel: status New Invalid
2009-02-26 09:53:50 Bryce Harrington xserver-xorg-video-intel: statusexplanation
2009-02-26 11:04:26 Timo Aaltonen xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: importance High Wishlist
2009-02-26 11:04:26 Timo Aaltonen xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: statusexplanation nouveau is still quite immature, and 3D is completely unsupported, so lowering importance due to that.
2009-02-26 11:18:09 Chris Halse Rogers xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: status Triaged Won't Fix
2009-05-06 18:39:45 Bryce Harrington tags iso-testing metabug valid-xorg-conf 3d iso-testing metabug valid-xorg-conf
2009-05-06 18:39:51 Bryce Harrington tags 3d iso-testing metabug valid-xorg-conf 3d compiz iso-testing metabug valid-xorg-conf
2009-05-07 03:12:50 Pablo Estigarribia attachment added Pantallazo-1.png http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26419550/Pantallazo-1.png
2009-05-13 02:29:14 Bryce Harrington summary 3D stuff breaks with Compiz: Redirected Direct Rendering is needed in DRI (Needs UXA) 3D stuff breaks with Compiz: Redirected Direct Rendering is needed in DRI
2009-05-13 20:10:23 Bryce Harrington summary (Needs UXA) 3D stuff breaks with Compiz: Redirected Direct Rendering is needed in DRI (Needs UXA/DRI2) 3D stuff breaks with Compiz: Redirected Direct Rendering is needed in DRI
2009-06-03 03:05:07 Launchpad Janitor xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu): status In Progress Fix Released
2009-07-22 15:51:17 Adil Arif removed subscriber Adil Arif
2009-07-30 21:59:11 Bryce Harrington summary (Needs UXA/DRI2) 3D stuff breaks with Compiz: Redirected Direct Rendering is needed in DRI (Needs radeon-rewrite) 3D stuff breaks with Compiz: Redirected Direct Rendering is needed in DRI
2009-08-14 08:58:02 Bryce Harrington xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu): importance Undecided Medium
2009-09-02 05:05:07 Launchpad Janitor xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu): status Triaged Fix Released
2009-09-05 12:56:05 Nicolò Chieffo removed subscriber Nicolò Chieffo
2009-11-23 09:47:10 Andy Clayton removed subscriber Andy Clayton
2009-12-18 03:42:21 Launchpad Janitor branch linked lp:ubuntu/xserver-xorg-video-intel
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2009-12-25 11:56:03 Reynaldo Matos Hortensi attachment added googleearth.png http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37182279/googleearth.png
2010-01-13 04:46:11 Launchpad Janitor branch linked lp:ubuntu/xserver-xorg-video-ati
2010-09-10 12:58:41 Bug Watch Updater xorg-server: importance Unknown High
2011-01-24 13:39:42 Bug Watch Updater xorg-server: importance High Unknown
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2011-03-21 14:13:28 Bug Watch Updater xorg-server: importance Unknown High
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