Bug 224001

Summary:	massive screen corruptions using nouveau drivers on kernel 2.6.33-rc5
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	notmart
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Attachments:	corrupted display using nouveau driver

Description Andrey Borzenkov 2010-01-24 07:23:06 UTC

Version:            (using Devel)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled sources

KDE 4.4 RC1, kernel 2.6.33-rc5, nouveau-0.0.15-0.20091221.1mdv2010.1.

I get corruptions both without effects active and with effects in XRender mode. Attached screenshot shows just booted KDE with effects disabled. With effects enabled I get random corruption of window decorations and various plasma elements.

Screen contents itself seems to be fine except very often the message list and content in kmail become dim when I switch focus to another window and remain so even when I return back.

I understand that it is not very good description and I am ready to provide more information if necessary. I just do not know which one - please ask.

Video device:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G86 [GeForce 8400M GS] (rev a1)

Comment 1 Andrey Borzenkov 2010-01-24 07:24:34 UTC

Created attachment 40184 [details]
corrupted display using nouveau driver

Comment 2 Andrey Borzenkov 2010-01-24 07:37:49 UTC

Correction - screen corruption with effects *disabled* does not seem to be unique to nouveau - I get exactly the same picture as on screen shot when I boot using binary nVidia driver with effects disabled.

Comment 3 Marco Martin 2010-01-25 13:51:39 UTC

that's a problem of interaction between the Qt X11 graphics system and nouveau drivers, we can't do anything about that