FS#48831 : [xf86-video-intel] Firefox rendering tile mayhem after driver update

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FS#48831 - [xf86-video-intel] Firefox rendering tile mayhem after driver update

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Sigalas Alexandros (alxarch) - Thursday, 07 April 2016, 07:28 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Saturday, 16 April 2016, 18:57 GMT

Task Type	Bug Report
Category	Packages: Testing
Status	Closed
Assigned To	Jan de Groot (JGC) Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) Laurent Carlier (lordheavy)
Architecture	All
Severity	Low
Priority	Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version	Undecided
Due Date	Undecided
Percent Complete
Votes	2 John Lindgren (jlindgren) (2016-04-14) Iven Hsu (ivenvd) (2016-04-11)
Private	No

Details

Description:

After upgrading to the latest (2.99.917+604) version of xf86-video-intel firefox page rendering has many tiling artifacts (see screenshot) on images. I haven't seen issues on other software yet but it's driver related because when I downgraded to 2.99.917+587 image rendering was normal again.

I have a Skylake i7 6600U and it has many issues with screen flickering etc.

Running on 4.6rc2

Additional info:
* package version(s) 2.99.917+604
* config and/or log files etc.

Here is my /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel-graphics.conf:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Graphics"
Driver "intel"
Option "DRI" "3"
# Option "DRI" "false"
# Option "AccelMethod" "glamor"
EndSection

2016-04-07-101347_1920x1080_s... (374.8 KiB)

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Closed by Doug Newgard (Scimmia)
Saturday, 16 April 2016, 18:57 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed
Additional comments about closing: xf86-video-intel 1:2.99.917+631+gf2a4645-1