Ubuntu Lucid Alpha - xterm screen corruption

[Alex Deucher]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:55 AM, John Stoffel <john at stoffel.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm running Ubuntu Lucid Alpha (I know, bleeding edge) on a x86_64 AMD
> box with 4Gb of RAM and PCIe X1600 (RV535) card, using the VGA output
> to an old HP monitor.  I'm using kernel 2.6.32-9-generic from Ubuntu,
> since I'm also using KVM as well.
>
> I'm also using the xorg-edgers PPA as well:
>
>  deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/xorg-edgers/ubuntu lucid main
>  deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/xorg-edgers/ubuntu lucid main
>
> Here's what I have installed for Mesa and xserver:
>
>    sail:~> apt-show-versions | grep radeon
>    libdrm-radeon1/lucid uptodate 2.4.17+git20091230.c5c503b5-0ubuntu0sarvatt3
>    libdrm-radeon1-dbg/lucid uptodate 2.4.17+git20091230.c5c503b5-0ubuntu0sarvatt3
>    xserver-xorg-video-radeon/lucid uptodate 1:6.12.99+git20100104.48aa5064-0ubuntu0sarvatt
>    xserver-xorg-video-radeon-dbg/lucid uptodate 1:6.12.99+git20100104.48aa5064-0ubuntu0sarvatt
>
>    sail:~> apt-show-versions | grep mesa
>    libgl1-mesa-dev/lucid upgradeable from 7.8.0~git20100107.d699b672-0ubuntu0sarvatt to 7.8.0~git20100113.50ae9c60-0ubuntu0sarvatt
>    libgl1-mesa-dri/lucid upgradeable from 7.8.0~git20100107.d699b672-0ubuntu0sarvatt to 7.8.0~git20100113.50ae9c60-0ubuntu0sarvatt
>    libgl1-mesa-glx/lucid upgradeable from 7.8.0~git20100107.d699b672-0ubuntu0sarvatt to 7.8.0~git20100113.50ae9c60-0ubuntu0sarvatt
>    libglu1-mesa/lucid upgradeable from 7.8.0~git20100107.d699b672-0ubuntu0sarvatt to 7.8.0~git20100113.50ae9c60-0ubuntu0sarvatt
>    libglu1-mesa-dev/lucid upgradeable from 7.8.0~git20100107.d699b672-0ubuntu0sarvatt to 7.8.0~git20100113.50ae9c60-0ubuntu0sarvatt
>    mesa-common-dev/lucid upgradeable from 7.8.0~git20100107.d699b672-0ubuntu0sarvatt to 7.8.0~git20100113.50ae9c60-0ubuntu0sarvatt
>    mesa-utils/lucid upgradeable from 7.8.0~git20100107.d699b672-0ubuntu0sarvatt to 7.8.0~git20100113.50ae9c60-0ubuntu0sarvatt
>
>    > apt-show-versions |grep drm
>    libdrm-intel1/lucid uptodate 2.4.17+git20091230.c5c503b5-0ubuntu0sarvatt3
>    libdrm-nouveau1/lucid uptodate 2.4.17+git20091230.c5c503b5-0ubuntu0sarvatt3
>    libdrm-radeon1/lucid uptodate 2.4.17+git20091230.c5c503b5-0ubuntu0sarvatt3
>    libdrm-radeon1-dbg/lucid uptodate 2.4.17+git20091230.c5c503b5-0ubuntu0sarvatt3
>    libdrm2/lucid uptodate 2.4.17+git20091230.c5c503b5-0ubuntu0sarvatt3
>
> I will try upgrading later tonight to the absolute latest versions.
>
> The system runs fine, except that when I expand an xterm to the full
> size of the screen (1280x1024), there's corruption on the lower 3-4
> lines of the xterm.  I can still use it, and if I re-size things so
> that I raise the bottom up about 20 lines (hard to know exactly and I
> can measure since I'm not in front of the machine right now) the
> corruption goes away.
>

Does the following xorg.conf option help?
Option "ColorTIling" "False"

> Would a screen shot be helpful to show the issue?
>

Yes.

Alex

> My xorg.conf has the following section:
>
>    Section "Device"
>            Identifier      "ATI Technologies Inc ATI Default Card"
>            Boardname       "VESA driver (generic)"
>            Busid           "PCI:3:0:0"
>            Driver          "radeon"
>            Screen  0
>    EndSection
>
> and my dmesg from bootup looks like this:
>
>    [    2.542792] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
>    ...
>    [    2.573541] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC6] enabled at IRQ 16
>    [    2.573589] pci 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> Link[APC6] -> GSI 16
>    (level, low) -> IRQ 16
>    [    2.573635] pci 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
>    [    2.573813] [drm] Initialized radeon 1.31.0 20080528 for
>    0000:03:00.0 on minor 0
>    [    2.575998] vga16fb: initializing
>    [    2.576001] vga16fb: mapped to 0xffff8800000a0000
>    [    2.576125] fb0: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device
>    ...
>    [   33.275014] [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map
>    [   33.275459] [drm] Loading R500 Microcode
>    [   33.275463] platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: requesting
>    radeon/R520_cp.bin
>    [   33.282575] svc: failed to register lockdv1 RPC service (errno 97).
>    [   33.288547] [drm] Num pipes: 1
>    [   33.288554] [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs
>
>
> Which makes me think I'm not using the proper DRM stuff, but who
> knows.
>
> Please let me know if there's any more information I can provide, or
> tests I can run.
>
> Thanks,
> John
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