[Bug 1479136] Re: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards

2021-09-12 Thread thom
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1479136 Title: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16

[Bug 1479136] Re: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards

2016-10-20 Thread Boris Gjenero
I wonder if this is the same bug which I am seeing on my Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop with Radeon X1400 video. Occasionally I get white lines which are very similar to the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx2-Fvihzxg video posted at the beginning. The only difference is that more lines are present at

[Bug 1479136] Re: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards

2016-08-30 Thread thom
@Ivan: There is a slight possibility that the patch could work for you (I don't know because I don't have that hardware). You could test by installing kernel 4.7 from mainline. The probable cause of the flickering is PLL-resonance which only seems to affect LVDS and only on older GPU-chips. It is

[Bug 1479136] Re: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards

2016-08-30 Thread Ivan Zakharyaschev
I'm afraid my case is different (drm:radeon_compute_pll_legacy). Perhaps, it's a matter of forcing a better modeline for the LCD, like here -- https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-984216-start-0.html . Although mostly I observed the flickering as horizontal lines/line segments, sometimes the

[Bug 1479136] Re: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards

2016-08-28 Thread Ivan Zakharyaschev
4.4.19-std-def-alt0.M80P.1 (not Ubuntu, but still might be important for collecting the data) with bad flickering 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV360 [Radeon 9600/X1050 Series] 01:00.1 Display controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV350

[Bug 1479136] Re: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards

2016-08-20 Thread thom
Update: Patch is part of the ubuntu mainline kernel 4.7 I'm running this kernel on ubuntu 16.04 and everything works as perfectly as expected. If anyone of you wants to try: Read this: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/MainlineBuilds here is kernel 4.7:

[Bug 1479136] Re: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards

2016-08-14 Thread Gabor Nagy
Same problem on RV710/M92. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1479136 Title: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards To manage notifications about this

[Bug 1479136] Re: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards

2016-06-21 Thread Chris Bainbridge
Best way would be to get the patch in to the stable series so it's fixed across all distributions: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1479136] Re: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards

2016-06-21 Thread thom
Before I forget: What can I do to get the patch incorporated in the current LTS release ? (Xenial 16.04) According to Christian König the patch is backwards compatible with the 4.x series kernels. I've tested it (compiled against 4.4.0.26) and it works without problem. Who do I have to

[Bug 1479136] Re: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards

2016-06-13 Thread thom
@Tim, Sorry to hear about that, so close to the finish. Thank you anyway for all the help. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1479136 Title: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon

[Bug 1479136] Re: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards

2016-06-13 Thread thom
UPDATE: Patch submitted by Christian König Patch applied by Alex Deucher https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2016-June/110724.html -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1479136

[Bug 1479136] Re: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards

2016-06-03 Thread Tim
Hello, Thom. Sadly the old laptop has died 100% (total failure of GPU). So i can not be of help on this bug for testing any more. Thank you all for the work, keep going! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1479136] Re: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards

2016-05-18 Thread Mrerexx
Radeon HD 3200 & Xubuntu 16.04 (4.4.0.21-generic) ISO booted from the USB drive: xubuntu kernel: [ 11.195154] [drm:radeon_compute_pll_avivo] 69300 - 69290, pll dividers - fb: 135.5 ref: 2, post 14 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1479136] Re: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards

2016-05-17 Thread thom
@Marius, Yes, thanks, that is exactly what I needed. That one line plus your card model. Excellent. I need it from as much people (i.e. affected hardware) as possible . -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1479136] Re: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards

2016-05-17 Thread Marius J.
I'm also hit by the bug on Ubuntu 16.04 with kernel 4.4.0-22-generic and a Radeon Mobility HD4670. @thom : the grep command return only the following line : kernel: [3.760078] [drm:radeon_compute_pll_avivo] 107000 - 106980, pll dividers - fb: 63.4 ref: 2, post 8 -- You received this bug

[Bug 1479136] Re: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards

2016-05-17 Thread thom
Tim, Mrerexx and anyone who is hit by this bug: I am testing a lot at the moment and I need your help. please boot that problematic kernel with bootoption: drm.debug=4 Then, in a terminal type this: grep -i "\[drm:" /var/log/kern.log | grep div | tail post the results here, I'm going to need

[Bug 1479136] Re: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards

2016-05-08 Thread thom
OK, about the bisect: c2fb3094669a3205f16a32f4119d0afe40b1a1fd is the first bad commit Date: Sun Apr 20 13:24:32 2014 +0200 drm/radeon: improve PLL limit handling in post div calculation This improves the PLL parameters when we work at the limits of the allowed ranges. I

[Bug 1479136] Re: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards

2016-05-04 Thread thom
Maybebut it is not supposed to cause such weird side effects I ended up doing a git bisect myself on this issue: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87682 (because it's an upstream bug) Anyone any tips how to continue ? ** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #87682

[Bug 1479136] Re: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards

2016-05-03 Thread Mrerexx
thom, VGA output is better. There is some flickering (no white lines, though) but my D-Sub cable is cheap. AFAIK, HP has disabled ATI PowerPlay in models with Athlon or Sempron CPUs. Maybe that's the culprit. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 1479136] Re: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards

2016-05-02 Thread thom
Mrerexx, could you perhaps test if your VGA output on that laptop is unaffected ? My VGA-output seems to work without problems and only LVDS seems affected. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1479136] Re: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards

2016-05-02 Thread thom
Mrerexx, I can confirm this... I have the EXACT same laptop model (I rarely use nowadays) and just checked it. Indeed this model still has the same problems with the newer kernels. Since this is an upstream bug, please follow this link [ https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83461 ] and

[Bug 1479136] Re: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards

2016-05-02 Thread Mrerexx
Xubuntu 16.04 LTS still gives me artifacts. I'm using HP Compaq 6735s with Athlon 64 X2 QL-60 & Radeon HD 3200. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1479136 Title: [ubuntu 14.04.2]

[Bug 1479136] Re: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards

2016-04-26 Thread Tim
Great news! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1479136 Title: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 1479136] Re: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards

2016-03-04 Thread thom
According to bugzilla: (https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83461) 32167016076f714f0e35e287fbead7de0f1fb179 seems to be the first bad commit bug seems to affect only the RS880 series and older Christian König proposed a patch to limit the reference divider to fix this and it seems to

[Bug 1479136] Re: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards

2016-01-22 Thread Joseph Salisbury
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1479136 Title: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards

[Bug 1479136] Re: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards

2016-01-21 Thread Chris Bainbridge
To get this fixed you'd need to do a git bisect between 3.13 and 3.16 to find the bad commit, and then report the bug upstream to bugs.freedesktop.org. ** Package changed: ubuntu => linux-meta (Ubuntu) ** Package changed: linux-meta (Ubuntu) => linux (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug

[Bug 1479136] Re: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards

2015-11-06 Thread Tim
4.2, 4.3 same problem. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1479136 Title: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards To manage notifications about this bug go

[Bug 1479136] Re: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards

2015-10-20 Thread Tim
Correction: Works up to kernel 3.13 like stated before so LTS version up to 14.4.1 it works ok, any above that is "flicker storm" -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1479136 Title:

[Bug 1479136] Re: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards

2015-10-20 Thread Tim
Also this bug is cross platform. Tested on: Lubuntu 14.4 14.10 15.4. 15.10 Ubuntu 14.4 14.10 15.4. 15.10 Fedora Live AnitX 15 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1479136 Title: [ubuntu

[Bug 1479136] Re: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards

2015-10-19 Thread Tim
Confirmed, same problem on Radeon 3400. Going back to kernel 3.13 works, everything above is flicker storm. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1479136 Title: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts

[Bug 1479136] Re: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards

2015-10-16 Thread thom
UPDATE: kernel 3.13.0-66 (i686) -> no problem kernel 3.16.0-33 (i686) -> blipstorm -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1479136 Title: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on

[Bug 1479136] Re: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards

2015-09-09 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: ubuntu Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1479136 Title: [ubuntu

[Bug 1479136] Re: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards

2015-07-29 Thread thom
also tried 3.13 kernel (trusty) with xserver-xorg-video-radeon-lts- utopic: no problem it looks like it is driver-independent. it seems to be a kernel bug more than a xorg-video-driver bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1479136] Re: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards

2015-07-29 Thread thom
I downloaded and installed kernel 4.0.9 from mainline-ppa Although the kernel runs OK and without painthe video didn't improve still blipstorm -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1479136] Re: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards

2015-07-29 Thread thom
Also tried with lts-utopic kernel and xorg : same results -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1479136 Title: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards To

[Bug 1479136] Re: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards

2015-07-29 Thread thom
Okay, I narrowed it down to this: Running on bare recovery console without Xorg : no problem Running on bare normal (??framebuffered??) console without Xorg: blipstorm The difference seems to me a loaded kernel driver...am I correct ?? If so, I could try out some new drivermodules or patches if

[Bug 1479136] Re: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards

2015-07-29 Thread thom
installed kernel 4.2.0-rc3 ... no change -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1479136 Title: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards To manage

[Bug 1479136] Re: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards

2015-07-29 Thread LocutusOfBorg
Hi, this might be related to the backported kernel or to some graphic issue on your card... try to install the latest graphics drivers, the lts-utopic or lts-vivid version maybe. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1479136] Re: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards

2015-07-29 Thread thom
Hi, thanks for looking into this. I just installed the meta packages xserver-xorg-lts-vivid ( --install- recommends) and linux-generic-lts-vivid and rebooted Running now: Xorg X Server version 1.17 (1:7.7+7ubuntu3-trusty1) vmlinuz-3.19.0-25-generic with options radeon.dpm=1 vt.handoff=7

[Bug 1479136] Re: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards

2015-07-28 Thread thom
launchpad decided to file this as a bug against virtualbox ... strange ...I run on bare metal. ** Package changed: virtualbox (Ubuntu) = ubuntu -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1479136