FS#38495 - [xf86-video-intel] Extreme video tearing after update

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by jack (jackgu1988) - Tuesday, 14 January 2014, 00:12 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Monday, 03 February 2014, 17:38 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Laurent Carlier (lordheavy)
Architecture x86_64
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 8
Private No

Details

Description:
I get extreme video tearing after the last update. I have tried the /etc/environment workaround but it does not work. TearFree option on xorg almost removes it, but slows down X. I am using SandyBridge and Cinnamon desktop environment.

Using the previous version, there was no tearing at all, using the same configuration.

Additional info:
* package version(s): 2.99.907-1

* config and/or log files etc.

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Graphics"
Driver "intel"
Option "AccelMethod" "sna"
Option "Backlight" "intel_backlight"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection


/etc/environment:
#
# This file is parsed by pam_env module
#
# Syntax: simple "KEY=VAL" pairs on separate lines
#
CLUTTER_PAINT=disable-clipped-redraws:disable-culling

Steps to reproduce:
- Update to the latest version
- Start the X server (with Cinnamon at least)
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Monday, 03 February 2014, 17:38 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Laurent Carlier (lordheavy) - Tuesday, 14 January 2014, 17:10 GMT
Can you provide Xorg and kernel log ?
Comment by Damian (mrDude) - Wednesday, 15 January 2014, 19:08 GMT
Same here on cinnamon with newest nvidia binary blob. it's probably related with xorg 1.15 update. Tearing is extremely visible in XBMC.
   Xorg.0.log (27.9 KiB)
Comment by Bernd Butscheidt (berndb) - Monday, 27 January 2014, 20:17 GMT
I noticed tearing (probably since last update) in cmplayer. Playing the same 25iHZ-x264 with vlc seems fine so far. I am on a Celeron 847 with built in HD 2000 Graphics.
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Saturday, 01 February 2014, 10:20 GMT
Please check 2.99.908!
Comment by Mike Cloaked (mcloaked) - Saturday, 01 February 2014, 17:44 GMT
I have intel graphics (00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)) and was not seeing any issues through to xf86-video-intel 2.99.907-2, but since upgrading to 2.99.908-1 I started seeing video tearing/corruption when using Thunderbird. After downgrading back to 2.99.907-2 things seem back to normal again, so it looks like there are problems with the .908 package.
Comment by Mike Cloaked (mcloaked) - Saturday, 01 February 2014, 17:49 GMT
I should add that my D.E. is KDE - although mostly there are no video issues other than complete video tearing in Thunderbird in random emails which are sometimes but not always reproducible when reloading the application.
Comment by Nathan Caza (mastercactapus) - Saturday, 01 February 2014, 18:21 GMT
I can add, in GNOME I have heavy corruption in synergy, and gnome-tweak-tool (especially the Extensions page). 2.99.907-2 does not show the issue for me.
both apps were near unusable in parts, always reproducible on my machine just by launching them with 2.99.908
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Saturday, 01 February 2014, 18:46 GMT
Once more: get in touch with upstream!
Comment by John (graysky) - Saturday, 01 February 2014, 20:03 GMT
Chris has released a patch fixing the problem.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74327
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/patch/?id=2814748b91c80c8935ea2f366e954a80bef69bb0

Attached PKGBUILD incorporating it. Does this solve the issue you reported, jack?
   PKGBUILD (1.8 KiB)
Comment by John (graysky) - Saturday, 01 February 2014, 20:36 GMT
Looks like xf86-video-intel 2.99.909 is out fixing this: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2014-February/056385.html
Comment by Skyler Hawthorne (dead10ck) - Saturday, 01 February 2014, 21:18 GMT
Confirming this bug. I get heavy visual artifacting with this update on my Lenovo X230i. Downgrading to 907-2 fixed the problem.
Comment by Mike Cloaked (mcloaked) - Saturday, 01 February 2014, 21:19 GMT
I just updated to 2.99.909 - unfortunately I still get video corruption with this version in Thunderbird running in KDE in archlinux, so I have again downgraded back to .907

So unfortunately there is still a bug in version xf86-video-intel 2.99.909-1
Comment by Brian (bwright1558) - Sunday, 02 February 2014, 06:44 GMT
I also confirm this bug when using chromium. Tearing is noticeable on the tabs in chromium. This occurs in both 2.99.908-1 and 2.99.909-1.
Comment by step-2 (step-2) - Sunday, 02 February 2014, 14:42 GMT
also confirm , graphical anomalies under GNOME , hardware 2013 macbook air

downgrading to 2.99.907-2 solve the issue
Comment by Mike Cloaked (mcloaked) - Sunday, 02 February 2014, 21:21 GMT
The new package in [testing] was released a short time ago ( 2.99.909-2 ) containing all the commits from upstream issued since .909 was released up to this evening - and so far this version gives me no further incidences of video corruption. So for me this is now fixed.

If others confirm that this new package resolves the video issues for them also then this report can be closed.

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