FS#21206 - [mesa] mesa 7.9 + radeon break KDE blur effect.

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by splashy (splashy) - Tuesday, 12 October 2010, 05:43 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Wednesday, 22 December 2010, 20:10 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Testing
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

After updating to mesa 7.9 and with the radeon driver, the KDE blur effect no more works, it's swaped by a black texture; here is a picture of the texture
http://pix.toile-libre.org/upload/original/1286712222.png

Additional info:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV770 [Radeon HD 4850]
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Wednesday, 22 December 2010, 20:10 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  updated the 7.10 snapshot, should include the fix now.
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Tuesday, 12 October 2010, 06:21 GMT
What dri driver does your card use? Please post Xorg.0.log+dmesg and look for upstream bugs (mesa+kde).
Comment by splashy (splashy) - Tuesday, 12 October 2010, 16:16 GMT
I use the ati-dri one,
Here is my Xorg.0.log: http://pastebin.archlinux.fr/425566
And the result of the dmesg command: http://pastebin.archlinux.fr/425567
And I look for upstream bugs and their is no solution yet for this problem, problem who appears for other peoples with KDE 4.5 and mesa 7.9.
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Saturday, 30 October 2010, 14:24 GMT
please check again with new testing kernel 2.6.36!
Comment by splashy (splashy) - Sunday, 31 October 2010, 09:06 GMT
I tried it but had the same problem...
For me blur effect only works with mesa 7.8 and kernel 2.6.34 (because on .35 & .36 their are gliches with mesa 7.8 but the blur effect work to with mesa 7.8).
So I concluded that the problem is located in mesa 7.9 package or kde's packages.
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Saturday, 18 December 2010, 11:14 GMT
please test mesa7.10 branch in testing.
Comment by splashy (splashy) - Monday, 20 December 2010, 00:54 GMT
I follow your advice but the blureffect still don't work! I don't understand why, I'm not the only user of an ATI card in KDE... And don't know to why I can't have this blur effect since mesa 7.9... I remove my .kde4 files two times but it didn't solve my problem and it's frustrating not to be able to have blur however it work with mesa 7.8.
And don't want to downgrade to mesa 7.8 any more but I except to have this fuc***** blur. How can I help you? Which files do I have to gave you? Thanks.
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Monday, 20 December 2010, 06:49 GMT
google for "kde blur effect radeon" - lot's of stuff that may help you ;)
Comment by splashy (splashy) - Monday, 20 December 2010, 19:59 GMT
Lol the google help, I found nothing except more precision on this bug. Beside my problem is now solve with radeon repository's packages. The last mesa-devel revision fix this problem. Ha that's pretty great!!!!!
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Monday, 20 December 2010, 21:19 GMT
I wonder what's different in that repository. We have latest mesa7.10 in testing. Maybe there's more recent kernel drm module that fixes it or a commits past 6.13 driver release.

Edit: ah - now I see some late commits in the mesa 7.10 branch that may be the fix. I'll update the snapshot very soon.