Black window with Gnome3 (xf86-video-ati 1:7.6.1-1)

Oscar Megia megia.oscar at gmail.com
Sat Jan 30 06:18:30 PST 2016


Hi

Sorry for my last email. I though that the issue was solved, but this week
I had black windows again.

Regards
Oscar

2016-01-24 17:24 GMT+01:00 Oscar Megia <megia.oscar at gmail.com>:

> Hi
>
> I updated xorg-server to 1.18.0-4:
> [2016-01-12 21:20] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-server-common (1.18.0-3 ->
> 1.18.0-4)
> [2016-01-12 21:20] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-server (1.18.0-3 -> 1.18.0-4)
> [2016-01-12 21:20] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-server-devel (1.18.0-3 -> 1.18.0-4)
> [2016-01-12 21:20] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-server-xwayland (1.18.0-3 ->
> 1.18.0-4)
>
> and without xorg.conf now two issues were solved (black windows and
> unlegible letters in LibreOffice).
>
> So it looks that weren't a ati driver issue. Sorry.
>
> Very thanks
> Oscar
>
> 2016-01-07 21:51 GMT+01:00 Oscar Megia <megia.oscar at gmail.com>:
>
>> These are my answers:
>>
>> 2016-01-07 2:44 GMT+01:00 Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net>:
>>
>>>
>>> [ Please keep the mailing list in Cc ]
>>>
>>> On 07.01.2016 06:10, Oscar Megia wrote:
>>> > Thanks for your answer, Michel
>>> >
>>> > I attached the files required and two more.
>>> >
>>> > After test different options I got it. Adding Option "TearFree" "on" on
>>> > xorg.conf works fine
>>>
>>> Since the problem is not tearing, TearFree can only affect it
>>> indirectly. E.g. one side effect of TearFree is that it disables page
>>> flipping. Does Option "EnablePageFlip" "off" work around the problem as
>>> well?
>>>
>>>
>> If I set "EnablePageFlip" to "on" and "TearFree" "off" -> only two side
>> effects
>> If I set "EnablePageFlip" to "off" and comment "TearFree" -> Same issue
>> (black windows)
>> If I set "EnablePageFlip" to "off" and "TearFree" to "off"-> Same issue (black
>> windows)
>> If I comment all Options except "TearFree" to "on" -> only two side
>> effects
>>
>> Because the issue is random I cannot garantee all test results.
>>
>>
>>> > with some minor issues:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> > And tooltips sometimes are shown incorrect:
>>>
>>> This could be https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90264 .
>>>
>>>
>> export LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 doesn't solve any side effect.
>>
>>
>>> Does not setting AccelMethod to glamor avoid any of the issues?
>>>
>>>
>> If I set "AccelMethod" to "off", it solves the issue and two side
>> effects, but when I play a video, it takes almost all CPU. With mplayer I
>> cannot maximize videos, With vlc if I maximize a video it runs too slow.
>>
>> If I set "AccelMethod" to "EXA" I have the same issue.
>>
>> Regards
>> Oscar
>>
>>
>>> --
>>> Earthling Michel Dänzer               |               http://www.amd.com
>>> Libre software enthusiast             |             Mesa and X developer
>>>
>>
>>
>
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