Bug#624199: xserver-xorg-video-intel: rendering stall/corruption in mythtv
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On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:13:10 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel
> Version: 2:2.15.0-1
> Severity: important
>
>
> Since upgrading xserver-xorg-video-intel to version 2:2.15.0-1 I have been
> experiencing what I thought was screen corruption when painting the mythtv
> menus -- various rows in the menus would fail to appear and would blink on and
> off as I scrolled through the items. However I just left it for a little while
> and it seems that eventually the menu elements do get drawn, I'd estimate that
> I've seen delays lasting from 10s to 30s, although I've not used a watch.
>
> The issue appears to affect entire menu elements, such as individual menus rows
> or entire information boxes, including the text and backing box (I'm not sure
> what they correspond to in the OpenGL model). You can see what I mean in the
> attached Good.jpg vs Bad.jpg (a bit blurry, sorry), various menu rows are
> missing as is the program details box.
>
> MythTV is configured to draw menus using OpenGL and video playback appears to
> be unaffected.
>
> This is an up to date Sid system but with the Squeeze 2.6.32 kernel and mythtv
> (+ related) packages from debian-multimedia.org.
>
> Downgrading to 2.14.902-1 makes problem go away.
>
> I can't see anything in Xorg.0.log nor dmesg. I had a bit of a trawl through
> the Debian and upstream BTS but nothing jumped out (it's hard to know what
> keywords to use for an issue like this though)
>
Hi Ian,
is this still reproducible with the latest software stack? (linux 3.0
or 3.1, X 1.11, intel 2.16 and mesa 7.11)
If yes please file a bug upstream per
http://intellinuxgraphics.org/how_to_report_bug.html and let us know the
bug number for tracking.
Thanks,
Julien
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