Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Jun 2012 16:43:29 -0400 | Subject | Re: [Regression] [Radeon] Stream command failures and render problems in Evergreen (Radeon HD 5600) in kernel 3.4 | From | Jerome Glisse <> |
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On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Brian Gitonga Marete <marete@toshnix.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Jerome Glisse <j.glisse@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 6:13 AM, Brian Gitonga Marete <marete@toshnix.com> wrote: >>> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 12:56 AM, Brian Gitonga Marete >>> <marete@toshnix.com> wrote: >>>> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 12:44 AM, Brian Gitonga Marete >>>> <marete@toshnix.com> wrote: >>>>> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Jerome Glisse <j.glisse@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Brian Gitonga Marete <marete@toshnix.com> wrote: >>>>>>> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Jerome Glisse <j.glisse@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Update your libdrm to libdrm from git should fix your issue. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Hello Jerome, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Thanks for looking into this. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I am afraid that even with the very latest libdrm (git 93a5117d), the >>>>>>> rendering is still broken. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> What else should I try? I would revert the patch that git-bisect >>>>>>> fingered (your patch, git 285484e2d, Linux mainline) but there are >>>>>>> merge problems when I try to do that, which I have not yet looked >>>>>>> into. Perhaps you can see if you can help me revert that patch so that >>>>>>> we can see if the problem then goes away? >>>>>>> >>>>>> What happen if you upgrade to xf86-video-ati from git ? >>>>> >>>>> Hello Jerome, >>>>> >>>>> Once again, thanks a lot for your help. >>>>> >>>>> Some progress but also a setback: Upgrading to the latest >>>>> xf86-video-ati git gets rid of the stream command failures - No more >>>>> error messages in dmesg(8). But then, now, rendering is completely >>>>> messed up. Previously, it was mostly the window boundaries that were >>>>> blurred/messed but now also entire windows and text so that you can't >>>>> read anything from the desktop. (For example, the previous render >>>>> problems would still allow me to use gnome-terminal even though its >>>>> frames were completely blurred. Now the text withing gnome-terminal is >>>>> also blurred/smudged) >>>>> >>>> >>>> I should add that in this case rendering is completely messed up in >>>> _both_ 3.3.x and 3.4. But the stream command failures in 3.4 go away >>>> upon upgrading to the latext xf86-video-ati git HEAD. >>> >>> Ok. All is fixed in kernel v3.4 if I additionally upgrade Mesa to the >>> latest git. Jerome, many thanks for your help on this! >>> >>> So to summarize, the 3.4 breakage in Ubuntu 11.04 (and probably other >>> distributions released around the same time) is fixed by: >>> >>> a) Upgrade libdrm to latest GIT as of this writing (93a5117d5) >>> b) Upgrade xf86-video-ati to latest GIT as of this writing (5888371) >>> c) Upgrade mesa to latest GIT as of this writing (529476b) >>> >>> Now kernel 3.4 works on my laptop. >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> BGM. >> >> Brian can you please test patch below on 6.14.0 ddx and old mesa (ie >> revert to ubuntu mesa & ddx) and report if it fix your issue. Thanks >> >> http://people.freedesktop.org/~glisse/0001-drm-radeon-fix-tiling-and-command-stream-checking-on.patch >> > OK. Will test and report back. Thanks! > > -- > Brian Gitonga Marete > Toshnix Systems - http://toshnix.com
I uploaded a v3 version same url, the v2 won't work for you. v3 should work (at least according to my local testing with same gpu as you and same use case)
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