Bug 69779 - [gm45 SNA] xbmc flickers
Summary: [gm45 SNA] xbmc flickers
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: xorg
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Driver/intel (show other bugs)
Version: git
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Chris Wilson
QA Contact: Intel GFX Bugs mailing list
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Keywords: regression
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2013-09-24 22:54 UTC by John
Modified: 2014-08-08 10:53 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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short video clip showing the bug (1.57 MB, text/plain)
2013-09-24 22:54 UTC, John
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Description John 2013-09-24 22:54:09 UTC
Created attachment 86494 [details]
short video clip showing the bug

When navigating the GUI within xbmc, eventually, I experience video tearing/elements of the GUI begin to flicker, etc.  It usually takes 30-40 seconds to manifest.  This is true when using the distro provided driver or the git version I just compiled.  There are no log entries that complement this bug.

Linux distro: Arch linux x86_64

Example video hardware: Intel GMA X4500HD

Xorg version: 1.14.3

Drivers packages in use (official ARCH packages):
* intel-dri 9.2.0-2
* libva-intel-driver 1.2.0-1
* xf86-video-intel-git-2.99.902.47.g63a81c8
Comment 1 John 2013-09-24 22:55:27 UTC
Not sure if the bug tracker will accept this mp4 video, so file it hosted at this url: http://repo-ck.com/bench/xf86-driver-intel-xbmc-bug.mp4
Comment 2 Chris Wilson 2013-09-25 08:27:16 UTC
That looks like a DRI2 invalidate bug, i.e. we will need to patch the xserver.
Comment 3 Chris Wilson 2013-09-25 11:39:47 UTC
Running on debian sid (xbmc 11.0, X Server 1.12.4) seems fine.
Comment 4 John 2013-09-25 19:10:08 UTC
Not sure what to make of that, Chris.  Any chance you're able to test using contemporary versions (Arch Linux provides very recent binaries in the official repos and if you wish, we have PKGBUILDs in the AUR to allow you to build from git with no effort)?  I just built xorg-server from git but am still experiencing the issue[1].  Note that I am using the git version of xf86-video-intel noted above.

Thank you!

1. xorg-server git version is 1.14.99.1.215.g7d3d4ae and xf86-input-evdev version is 2.8.1.3.g0f16065.
Comment 5 Chris Wilson 2013-09-25 22:06:38 UTC
Sadly, everything from the last 5 years is contemporary - one distribution or other is running that code and the driver needs to work with anything. :|

Fortunately that machine is currently expendable so I can look at another distribution if building from git is not sufficient.
Comment 6 Chris Wilson 2014-02-01 11:20:27 UTC
Were you by any chance using TearFree?
Comment 7 Chris Wilson 2014-07-01 10:44:36 UTC
I have still not have not seen this, so is it still a problem?
Comment 8 Chris Wilson 2014-08-08 10:53:58 UTC
No response, assuming that it is no longer an issue.


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