Bug#572001: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: Display corruption with kernel 2.6.33

[Brice Goglin]

severity 572001 normal
thank you



Dietz Proepper wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon
> Version: 1:6.12.99+git20100201.a887818f-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>   

Seriously ? No. It's not even a crash, which would only be "important" :)

> Under linux-2.6.33 with kms enabled I get serious display corruption
> as soon as I do opengl stuff, i.e. starting glxgears. After terminating
> glxgears, the corruption vanishes sometimes.
> The corruption looks like wrong timings looked way back as we had
> analogous displays, want to say, the picture seems to cycle through.
>
> With 2.6.32.7+kms everything works fine. I did not yet check, wether the
> same happens with .33 w/o kms.
>
> The machine is a Lenovo Z61m, mobile x1400 chipset.
> The xserver log below is not from 2.6.33, I can create one if needed.
>   

Why do you report against xserver-xorg-video-radeon if 2.6.33 seems to
be the breaker here ?

Which mesa do you have, by the way ? If OpenGL is enabled, you could
compare Mesa 7.6.1 (in testing) and 7.7 (in unstable) in case you see a
difference.

Brice