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

Oscar Megia megia.oscar at gmail.com
Thu May 26 19:49:06 UTC 2016


Hi

I updated the driver to xf86-video-ati 1:7.7.0-1 and I still have the same
issue.

Could you try to solve this issue, please?

Regards
Oscar

2016-01-30 15:18 GMT+01:00 Oscar Megia <megia.oscar at gmail.com>:

> 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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