[opensuse] KDE/Plasma5 Compositor regression
Since fairly recent versions of Plasma 5 (all from Opensuse repositories) going back sometime earlier this year, I've noticed an annoying regression on in the compositor on my hardware. I use to be able to run with all the bling turned on, wobbly windows, transparency, several different effects, fades, zooms, etc - almost all the features offed by KDE. Most of that stuff still works, but now menus, both KDE main menu, as well as application menues get filled with squiggly lines. Attaching an example of a pull-down menu in Tbird. If I then mouse down through the options, each line will become clear as the cursor pointer crosses it. All other compositing effects seem to work the same as they did say last year. KDE previously worked perfectly with all compositing features that your video card was capable of, after many years of effort getting that to work. I thought my video card was failing. Only full solution: I toggled off compositing (Alt-shift 12), and this squiggle fill goes away instantly. (I can also log in with compositing turned off of course.) Equipment: Older ATI RV515 M45 Mobility Radeon X1400. Using the Community drivers. Seen on Leap 42.2 problem started sometime early 2018. Persists in Leap 15 (kernel 4.12.14-6-lp150.8-default) Kde Plasma 5.12.4 Attached small image, lets see if it sneaks through the list server, or if I have to susepaste it, -- After all is said and done, more is said than done.
John Andersen wrote:
Since fairly recent versions of Plasma 5 (all from Opensuse repositories) going back sometime earlier this year, I've noticed an annoying regression on in the compositor on my hardware. . . . Attached small image, lets see if it sneaks through the list server, or if I have to susepaste it,
I had some sort-of comparable issues some year ago or so. In my case it was the modesetting driver of X. I switched to xf86-video-intel which did not have those issues - but likely you don't have a proper alternative? (by now I'm back to modesetting, as the errors are gone) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 04/15/2018 11:29 AM, Peter Suetterlin wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
Since fairly recent versions of Plasma 5 (all from Opensuse repositories) going back sometime earlier this year, I've noticed an annoying regression on in the compositor on my hardware. . . . Attached small image, lets see if it sneaks through the list server, or if I have to susepaste it,
I had some sort-of comparable issues some year ago or so. In my case it was the modesetting driver of X. I switched to xf86-video-intel which did not have those issues - but likely you don't have a proper alternative?
(by now I'm back to modesetting, as the errors are gone)
You might be on to something here. I did some digging and found that opensuse Leap 15 installed a bunch of xf86-video-xxxxx packages, including xf86-video-amdgpu xf86-video-ati And the dates on these differ as do the numbers on the conf files inside of these. Also this was an upgrade, so I might have a mix new and old of drivers in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ directory. I'll have to do some digging to see what exactly is there and is being used, compared to older releases. Note that this behavior predates Leap-15. I have several backups of this machine and I may be able to figure out when the breakage started from those. -- After all is said and done, more is said than done. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
John Andersen wrote:
On 04/15/2018 11:29 AM, Peter Suetterlin wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
Since fairly recent versions of Plasma 5 (all from Opensuse repositories) going back sometime earlier this year, I've noticed an annoying regression on in the compositor on my hardware. . . . Attached small image, lets see if it sneaks through the list server, or if I have to susepaste it,
I had some sort-of comparable issues some year ago or so. In my case it was the modesetting driver of X. I switched to xf86-video-intel which did not have those issues - but likely you don't have a proper alternative?
(by now I'm back to modesetting, as the errors are gone)
You might be on to something here.
I did some digging and found that opensuse Leap 15 installed a bunch of xf86-video-xxxxx packages, including
xf86-video-amdgpu xf86-video-ati
And the dates on these differ as do the numbers on the conf files inside of these.
You might want to have a look at the Xorg.log. Xorg has a precedence list compiled in, but will go through the available ones. You can then override the default choice with xorg.conf.d snippets. E.g., I used /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-device.conf: Section "Device" Identifier "Default Device" Driver "modesetting" EndSection Good luck! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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