Display problems (ATI RS690)

[Alexis Guerrero]

Enabling the Unity dash to select an application, the system is extremely slow and display errors are observed.
This problem also occurs in Firefox tabs when closing the Unity Dash.

~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu Raring Ringtail (development branch)
Release: 13.04

~$ apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-video-ati
xserver-xorg-video-ati:
  Instalados: 1:7.1.0-0ubuntu1
  Candidato: 1:7.1.0-0ubuntu1
  Tabla de versión:
 *** 1:7.1.0-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.1.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-7.15-generic 3.8.0
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-7-generic x86_64
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:

ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.330
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: compiz
CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0'
CompositorUnredirectFSW: true
Date: Wed Feb 27 03:47:43 2013
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: raring
DistroVariant: ubuntu
GraphicsCard:
 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series] [1002:791f] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0213]
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20130226)
MachineType: eMachines eMachines E625
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/username.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-ati
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 06/03/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: eMachines
dmi.bios.version: V1.11
dmi.board.name: HM50-YK
dmi.board.vendor: eMachines
dmi.board.version: N/A
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: eMachines
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvneMachines:bvrV1.11:bd06/03/2009:svneMachines:pneMachinesE625:pvrV1.11:rvneMachines:rnHM50-YK:rvrN/A:cvneMachines:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: eMachines E625
dmi.product.version: V1.11
dmi.sys.vendor: eMachines
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.9~daily13.02.19-0ubuntu1
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.42-0ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 9.0.2-0ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 9.0.2-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.13.2-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.3-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.1.0-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.21.3-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.6-0ubuntu3
xserver.bootTime: Wed Feb 27 02:45:29 2013
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.errors:

xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.version: 2:1.13.2-0ubuntu2
xserver.video_driver: radeon

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[tdelunel (tdelunel)]

Same problem for me on an HP pavillon dv2, on a fresh install of ubuntu 13.04.

lspci
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS690M [Radeon Xpress 1200/1250/1270]

Display errors on unity dash (small squares green and red)

[tdelunel (tdelunel)]

Seems to be the same problem as Bug #1167018.
The display errors disapear as you disable blur option in unity

[madbiologist (me-again)]

According to https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=35eecf052250f663f07a4cded7d3503fd1b50729 and https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35457 this bug is finally fixed in the upstream 3.13-rc5 kernel. A PPA of this kernel is available at http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ and instructions on how to install and uninstall it are available at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/MainlineBuilds

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Alexis Guerrero, 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 test for this with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ .

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

apport-collect -p xserver-xorg-video-ati REPLACE-WITH-BUG-NUMBER

Please note, given that the information from the prior release is already available, doing this on a release prior to the development one would not be helpful.

Thank you for your understanding.

Helpful bug reporting tips:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs

[madbiologist (me-again)]

The fix I mentioned in comment #6 is now also available in the upstream 3.12.7 kernel.

A PPA of this kernel is available at kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ and instructions on how to install and uninstall it are available at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/MainlineBuilds