Re: [E-devel] redraw problem

[Tomas C. <tc...@su...>]

On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 01:57:22AM +0900, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
>On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 18:38:53 +0200 Tomas Cech <tc...@su...> said:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 05:24:33PM +0200, Cedric BAIL wrote:
>> >Hi,
>> >
>> >On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Tomas Cech <tc...@su...> wrote:
>> >> I had problems with redrawing of applications, menus, background.
>> >> Sometimes application stopped redrawing after a while and just special
>> >> action causing explicit redraw (desktop change, window move, ...) helps
>> >> for a while.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> (from lspci)
>> >> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile
>> >> GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) (rev 0c)
>> >> 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960
>> >> Integrated Graphics Controller (secondary) (rev 0c)
>> >>
>> >> (from Xorg.0.log)
>> >> [    99.924] (II) LoadModule: "intel"
>> >> [    99.924] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so
>> >> [    99.925] (II) Module intel: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
>> >> [    99.925]    compiled for 1.9.3, module version = 2.15.0
>> >> [    99.925]    Module class: X.Org Video Driver
>> >> [    99.925]    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 8.0
>> >>
>> >> Workaround for the problem is to disable KMS.
>> >>
>> >> echo 'options i915 modeset=0' > /etc/modprobe.d/i915-disable-kms.conf
>> >>
>> >> Maybe it will save some hours of madness.
^^^
This.

>> >
>> >Sounds like a bug, like many, in video driver. Did you talk to intel
>> >maintainer ?
>>
>> It's definitely bug. No, but I found several similar bugs on distro
>> specific bugzillas.
>>
>> Bug report created for X.org here:
>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39695
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Tomas Cech
>> Sleep_Walker
>
>and... what do you want us to do about it? :)

Funny, I think it was you who told me that someone else was fighting
with this issue. This way it will be easier to google it.

If it is too off topic, my apologies :)

Best regards,

Tomas Cech
Sleep_Walker