FS#17047 - [kernel26] font corruption on AGP ATI cards

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by olivier (0livier) - Saturday, 07 November 2009, 14:38 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Tuesday, 26 January 2010, 12:37 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Upstream Bugs
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 2
Private No

Details

I am using an up to date arch on a laptop with a 9700 AGP card and a font corruption issue is making xorg hardly usable.

I fixed the issue patching the kernel with a a fedora patch found here

dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg44253.html"> http://www.mail-archive.com/dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg44253.html

I have no idea if this has been sent upstream already, but if it has not, it might be a good idea to include it in the next kernel. Other users suffer from the same issue. http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=651760#p651760
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Tuesday, 26 January 2010, 12:37 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  No response in +1 month. According to the latest comment this is fixed. Please reopen if necessary.
Comment by Laszlo Papp (djszapi) - Saturday, 07 November 2009, 15:21 GMT
What does it mean 'font corruption issue' ?
Comment by olivier (0livier) - Saturday, 07 November 2009, 16:03 GMT
something like the screenshots attached to that bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=531431

sorry for not providing the link in the first place.
Comment by olivier (0livier) - Saturday, 07 November 2009, 16:13 GMT
actually, that one describes it better https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=529081
Comment by Jussi Timperi (Beini) - Sunday, 08 November 2009, 08:46 GMT
I can confirm this one PCIE card as well. Using X850XT PCIE. It's fairly rare, though. Usually happens under a high load and it fixes by itself after a while.
Comment by Peter Galiovsky (galiyosha) - Sunday, 22 November 2009, 17:23 GMT
I had a similar issue, with Mobility Radeon 7500, 16 MB video RAM, to the point of X.org being totally unusable after a couple of minutes, sometimes crashing altogether, with washed out colors and dmesg and X.org log full of messages about failed memory allocation. Disabling KMS through radeon.modeset=0 helped.
Comment by Nick Lee (Revolution) - Friday, 27 November 2009, 04:04 GMT
I have the same issue on my Mobility Radeon 7500, (16 MB RAM, AGP), and it's just as bad.
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Comment by Colin Pitrat (LiFo2) - Friday, 18 December 2009, 20:01 GMT
Same problem here, except disabling KMS made it worse ! With KMS, font degrades with time, becoming unreadable in a dozen of minutes. Wihtout KMS, all characters were completely screwed up at X startup.
Comment by Colin Pitrat (LiFo2) - Saturday, 19 December 2009, 19:25 GMT
It was fixed on my computer by using kernel + driver from testing:
xf86-video-ati 6.12.99.git20091207-1
kernel26 2.6.32.1-1
libdrm 2.4.16-1

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