Guys,
Updated tonight, the updated contained a number of kde3 updates. On restart, the desktop initially displays properly, basket loads, and then it appears that the panel tries to load and causes the screen to rip diagonally. (where the display is broken into 100s of little 1/4 squares and the broken display wraps down for the top-right to the bottom left. Maybe it is ksplash that is going nuts.
This is with the standard (open source) radeon driver. It is also a kde3 problem. xfce and other desktops are fine. Anybody else see this after updates in the last day or two? Any ideas what to look for? Thanks
On 02/09/2011 10:47 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
This is with the standard (open source) radeon driver. It is also a kde3 problem. xfce and other desktops are fine. Anybody else see this after updates in the last day or two? Any ideas what to look for? Thanks
CORRECTION - The problem effects all WMs. Xfce ran fine until a dialog popped up and then the display scrambled into 1000s of little squares. I can't get a screenshot because I can't see the 'filename input' field much less the 'save' button. So it looks like X. My guess is it is one of the following:
1297305248 (Wed 09 Feb 2011 08:34:08 PM CST) xorg-x11-server-sdk 1297305257 (Wed 09 Feb 2011 08:34:17 PM CST) xorg-x11-server-extra 1297305267 (Wed 09 Feb 2011 08:34:27 PM CST) xorg-x11-driver-video 1297305271 (Wed 09 Feb 2011 08:34:31 PM CST) xorg-x11-driver-input
No 'EE' in either Xorg.0.log or Xorg.0.log.old. Anybody else see anything strange out of the new xorg driver or server?
On 02/10/2011 09:38 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 02/09/2011 10:47 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
This is with the standard (open source) radeon driver. It is also a kde3 problem. xfce and other desktops are fine. Anybody else see this after updates in the last day or two? Any ideas what to look for? Thanks
CORRECTION - The problem effects all WMs. Xfce ran fine until a dialog popped up and then the display scrambled into 1000s of little squares. I can't get a screenshot because I can't see the 'filename input' field much less the 'save' button. So it looks like X. My guess is it is one of the following:
1297305248 (Wed 09 Feb 2011 08:34:08 PM CST) xorg-x11-server-sdk 1297305257 (Wed 09 Feb 2011 08:34:17 PM CST) xorg-x11-server-extra 1297305267 (Wed 09 Feb 2011 08:34:27 PM CST) xorg-x11-driver-video 1297305271 (Wed 09 Feb 2011 08:34:31 PM CST) xorg-x11-driver-input
No 'EE' in either Xorg.0.log or Xorg.0.log.old. Anybody else see anything strange out of the new xorg driver or server?
Solved = downgraded to working state
Guys,
The dialog that caused the screen to scramble was the darn 'kupdater' dialog at the top of the screen that tells you there are updates (even though there aren't any). I solved the display corruption problem by downgrading to:
xorg-x11-driver-input-7.6-98.1.i586.rpm xorg-x11-driver-video-7.6-162.1.i586.rpm xorg-x11-server-7.6_1.9.3-111.6.i586.rpm xorg-x11-server-extra-7.6_1.9.3-111.6.i586.rpm xorg-x11-server-sdk-7.6_1.9.3-111.6.i586.rpm
So it looks like the problem was in either:
xorg-x11-server-7.6_1.9.3-115.1.i586.rpm xorg-x11-driver-video-7.6-170.1.i586.rpm
from the xorg repo. Strange, I haven't seen this type of behavior with display corruption since the kde2 days... or with radeonhd drivers I build myself :)
David C. Rankin said the following on 02/10/2011 11:27 AM:
On 02/10/2011 09:38 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 02/09/2011 10:47 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
This is with the standard (open source) radeon driver. It is also a kde3 problem. xfce and other desktops are fine. Anybody else see this after updates in the last day or two? Any ideas what to look for? Thanks
[snip]
Solved = downgraded to working state
Guys,
The dialog that caused the screen to scramble was the darn 'kupdater' dialog at the top of the screen that tells you there are updates (even though there aren't any).
My observation is different. When I book my laptop I get a good login screen, but then the pinentry dialogue box causes the screen scramble. If I enter the passphrase blind the login proceeds and the screen is completely pixilated.
I solved the display corruption problem by downgrading to:
I can't see those in the repository. However this is how I solved the problem
From a regular terminal (hotkey or ssh from another machine)
I su to root then init 3 to kill the X server, then init 5 to start it. Now all is well.
Two observations.
If I do the above I have no problems with the login and pinentry dialogue.
If I start but don't use the GUI login, and instead login from a remote connection and do the terminal mode pinentry, then do the GUI login, and since gpg-agent is running don't encounter the pinentry, there is no problem.
In both cases I never see any of this pixelation subsequently.
I suspect its a timing problem
On 02/10/2011 02:51 PM, Anton Aylward wrote:
I can't see those in the repository. However this is how I solved the problem
From a regular terminal (hotkey or ssh from another machine)
I su to root then init 3 to kill the X server, then init 5 to start it. Now all is well.
Two observations.
If I do the above I have no problems with the login and pinentry dialogue.
If I start but don't use the GUI login, and instead login from a remote connection and do the terminal mode pinentry, then do the GUI login, and since gpg-agent is running don't encounter the pinentry, there is no problem.
In both cases I never see any of this pixelation subsequently.
I suspect its a timing problem
I agree there is a problem somewhere - no clue where. This is on my old laptop with a radeon 9600 card. When I would login to runlevel 5/kdm4, the greeter display was fine. When I started kde3 or xfce, the display would be fine and everything would work. Then when the kupdater dialog would appear -- things would scramble/pixelate. The repository where the files were located was:
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/X11:/XOrg/openSUSE_11.3/
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David C. Rankin