Re: [radeon] plasma screen corruption/nothing to click on except crash notifier -> black screen

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Felix Miata composed on 2015-08-27 22:23 (UTC-0400):

> Kevin Kofler composed on 2015-08-27 14:06 (UTC-0400):

>> Felix Miata wrote:

>>> host fi965
>>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
>>> RV370 [Radeon X600/X600 SE] using radeon driver
>>> F23 x86_64 freshly dnf upgraded from last same about 10 weeks ago (4.2.rc8
>>> kernel)
>>> initial screen corruption eventually clears to black
>>> plasmashell PID 1621/1667/1687 segmentation fault (11)
>>> multi-user.target startup -> startx
>>> IIRC, theme selected is whatever alternative to Breeze was found, likely
>>> Oxygen If I un-disable compositing (set via xorg.conf*), crash notifier
>>> never appears, and screen corruption remains until Ctrl-Alt-BS
>>> .xsession-errors is not being written
>>> no BRC bug on point less than 5 months touched last found

>> That looks like broken OpenGL support in the driver.

>> Trying the QT_XCB_USE_SOFTWARE_OPENGL workaround that was implemented for 
>> the drivers (like rv200) that don't do OpenGL 2 at all can't hurt. Of course 
>> it will be slower, but at least it shouldn't crash…

>> (You can try editing /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/10-qt5-check-opengl2.sh to 
>> leave only these lines:
>>   QT_XCB_FORCE_SOFTWARE_OPENGL=1
>>   export QT_XCB_FORCE_SOFTWARE_OPENGL
>> to set the variable unconditionally.)

> (Core2Duo 2.67GHz) host fi965 running 64 bit that resulted in me starting
> this thread won't POST any more, so instead of following up with host big41,
> I pulled the rv370 Radeon from host fi965, put it in (P4 2.8GHz) host gx27b
> running 32 bit, did a dnf update of F22, cloned it to another partition, dnf
> upgraded that to F23, and that did a tiny bit better. First boot to a plasma
> session got an automatic restart of Konsole (which I rarely close before
> logging off, expecting as in KDE4 an automatic reopen on login). Following
> the appearance of Konsole, the desktop behind it was all corrupted, then went
> black. Meanwhile, the panel never showed up, and 3 plasmashell abort popups
> appeared.

> Restarting plasma after the above suggested edit avoids the corruption and
> allows the panel to start and function.

Asked on ati driver list and got this wontfix bug response saying fix must
come from KDE upstream if anywhere:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91534

> # rpm -qa | sort | egrep 'mesa|v-ati|r-Xorg'
> mesa-dri-drivers-11.0.0-0.rc1.1.20150824.fc23.i686
> mesa-filesystem-11.0.0-0.rc1.1.20150824.fc23.i686
> mesa-libEGL-11.0.0-0.rc1.1.20150824.fc23.i686
> mesa-libgbm-11.0.0-0.rc1.1.20150824.fc23.i686
> mesa-libGL-11.0.0-0.rc1.1.20150824.fc23.i686
> mesa-libglapi-11.0.0-0.rc1.1.20150824.fc23.i686
> mesa-libGLES-11.0.0-0.rc1.1.20150824.fc23.i686
> mesa-libGLU-9.0.0-9.fc23.i686
> mesa-libwayland-egl-11.0.0-0.rc1.1.20150824.fc23.i686
> xorg-x11-drv-ati-7.6.0-0.1.20150709git95f5d09.fc23.i686
> xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.17.2-2.fc23.i686
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