KDE kicker, menu and apps titlebar not viewable

[johnnyhop]

All was well with Karmic alpha1, the symptoms appeared after an update in late June or sometime in July, I wish I'd remembered or made a note. Recently I did a clean install of alpha 5 and no change. It appears to be associated with the drivers associated with my Radeon 7200 (circa 2002) display adapter. The symptoms were eliminated when another display adapter that was on hand, a 1997 vintage S3 ViRGE PCI was installed. Details of the symptoms: Kicker panel is black with very thin vertical lines of various seemingly random hues and shades of orange, yellow and gray. When moving the mouse pointer along kicker panel the expected text windows appear at the expected location of the icons. The Kmenu opens to a crosshatch of similar lines with more variety of colors and when applications are opened, the titlebar on open apps also shows symptoms like the Kicker panel.

[johnnyhop (hookedonlinux)]

I'm sorry to report no change.

Jonathan Thomas wrote:
> ** Package changed: ubuntu => xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu)
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[johnnyhop (hookedonlinux)]

Attached requested files, also attached same from Jaunty.

John Hofstetter
10 E 4th St #17
Frederick, MD 21701-5257
301-668-7446
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Bryce Harrington wrote:
> ** Tags added: needs-xorglog
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> ** Tags added: needs-lspci-vvnn
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> ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
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[Gunnar Koppel (wanradt)]

I can confirm this bug on Karmic Alpha 6: using "ati" or "radeon" driver gives checkered display items, with "vesa" driver is picture nice, but all 2d acceleration is gone (no videos). My graphic card is ATI Mobility Radeon LY. I attach also screenshot.

[Gunnar Koppel (wanradt)]

After upgrading to Beta all text mode terminals are scrambled and unusable, graphic card still ATI Mobility Radeon LY M6.

[johnnyhop (hookedonlinux)]

After "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" and downloading 127mb of
archives and noting "xserver-xorg-video-ati" wasn't in the upgrade list
but other xorg packages were in the list proceed with "apt-get install
xserver-xorg-video-ati" reported "xserver-xorg-video-ati is the latest
version." Then rebooted and found the bug is still an issue.

Is it possible something else needs to be done on my part?

Jonathan Thomas wrote:
> ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => High
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[Matthias (matthi)]

Switching to AccelMethod "EXA" removes the artifacts, but is terribly slow. I've downgraded to Jaunty's xserver-xorg-video-ati and -radeon drivers, and have no problems with the AccelMethod "XAA" now.

lspci -vvv for the graphics card:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY
        Subsystem: IBM Device 0235
        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: 66 (2000ns min), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
        Region 0: Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
        Region 1: I/O ports at 3000 [size=256]
        Region 2: Memory at c0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at c0120000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel modules: radeon, radeonfb

[erichgamba (erichgamba)]

I got the same problem with an ATI Radeon IGP 330M/340M/350M VGA controller.
This seems to be the same bug as #457776
It is also mentioned in the ubuntu forum: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1306180

[Shahar Or (mightyiam)]

I'm not sure, but do you think this is https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22312 ?

[mtu (mtu)]

I can confirm Matthias' soggestion for a workaround: Downgrading to Jaunty's driver package fixes the problem.

Download the package deb here: http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/i386/xserver-xorg-video-radeon-dbg/download

Then install it by running 'dpkg -i --force-downgrade xserver-xorg-video-radeon-dbg...deb' (replace with exact filename).

[Shahar Or (mightyiam)]

Or perhaps it is this one:
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22055
?

[Shahar Or (mightyiam)]

Anyone mind telling me whether "RenderAccel" "off" also works around this problem?

[Clay Weber (claydoh)]

This is a duplicate of #426582

setting accel method to xaa, and setting renderaccel to off seems to work

just to note, setting RenderAccel to Off does NOT disable Kwin effects

[Ralf Folkerts (ralf-folkerts)]

Just a confirmation of Clays Post: Setting "AccelMethod" "XAA" and "RenderAccel" "Off" works fine here, too. The Panel etc. get painted correctly and the Performance is ways better than with AccelMethod EXA. Card here is a Radeon Mobility M6 LY.