8.42.3 Screen glitches && missing textures

**MrDuck** · 10-24-2007, 04:01 PM

Hi here, updated to 8.42.3 from 8.40.4, aiglx works, but i have graphical glitches on the screen running compiz: http://mrduck.hopto.org/img/__.png . Screen is not slow or anything,it runs pretty smoothly but just with these glitches.

Also (dunno if it's related to this,but worse prob for me) i've no textures in World of Warcraft using openGL: http://mrduck.hopto.org/img/wow-notexture.png
http://mrduck.hopto.org/img/wow-logon.png . Textures are present while using d3d, though the performance is horrible (d3d gives up to 3fps).
Had performance problems with 8.40 too, textures in WoW were present, but it ran in 4-10fps with oGL.
Any suggestion is pretty welcome,thanks :-) Here goes some info:

Code:

$ uname -a
Linux kachna-desktop 2.6.22.9-mrduck #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Sep 29 15:01:44 CEST 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

Code:

$ fglrxinfo
display: :0.0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Radeon X1600 Series
OpenGL version string: 2.0.6958 Release

Code:

$ glxgears
9165 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1832.843 FPS
10006 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2001.195 FPS
9970 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1993.848 FPS
10048 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2009.465 FPS

-- Had around 4000 with 8.40

Code:

$ fgl_glxgears
Using GLX_SGIX_pbuffer
4165 frames in 5.0 seconds = 833.000 FPS
4175 frames in 5.0 seconds = 835.000 FPS
4173 frames in 5.0 seconds = 834.600 FPS

-- Had around 500 with 8.40

Here's the edge of Xorg.0.log that could make some sense:

Receive 3D performance mode message with status: 00000001
Receive 3D performance mode message with status: 00000000
Error in "atiddxMiscUpdateFile" -4

Code:

$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log |grep WW
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist.
(WW) Including the default font path /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType.
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found
(WW) fglrx(0): board is an unknown third party board, chipset is supported
(WW) fglrx(0): Only one display is connnected,so single mode is enabled
(WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x25
(WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x26
...
(WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x78

And last thing: Xorg.conf

Code:

$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "Default Layout"
        Screen         "Default Screen" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Generic Keyboard"
        InputDevice    "Logitech G5"
        Option          "AIGLX" "true"
EndSection

Section "Files"
        # path to defoma fonts
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
        FontPath     "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "i2c"
        Load  "bitmap"
        Load  "ddc"
        Load  "dri"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "freetype"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "int10"
        Load  "vbe"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
        Option      "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "CoreKeyboard"
        Option      "XkbRules" "xorg"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "cz"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier "Logitech G5"
        Driver "evdev"
        Option "CorePointer"
        Option "Name" "Logitech USB Gaming Mouse"
        Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
        Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "BenQ FP92E"
        Option      "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "X1600"
        Driver      "fglrx"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Default Screen"
        Device     "X1600"
        Monitor    "BenQ FP92E"
        DefaultDepth     24
        #...some more depths...
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     24
                Modes    "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480" "640x350"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Mode         0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
        Option      "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

**FunkyRider** · 10-24-2007, 07:12 PM

That's it, the next driver sux at AIGLX

there are apparently 2 solutions:

1. Keeps using XGL and prey for next release

2. Go for an nVidia

I've already made up my mind to dump my X1900 and go to a 8800GT as soon as it launch (29/October)

**sastraxi** · 10-24-2007, 08:35 PM

Got the exact same compiz problem.
Let me know if you figure anything out...

**peol** · 10-25-2007, 06:18 AM

I had that horrible screen distortions also on my Ubuntu Gutsy with 8.42.3, I made a clean install yesterday and now everything is back to normal (except for choppy animations/laggy 2d).

**Ren Höek** · 10-25-2007, 07:29 AM

Originally Posted by MrDuck

Hi here, updated to 8.42.3 from 8.40.4, aiglx works, but i have graphical glitches on the screen running compiz: http://mrduck.hopto.org/img/__.png . Screen is not slow or anything,it runs pretty smoothly but just with these glitches.

Also (dunno if it's related to this,but worse prob for me) i've no textures in World of Warcraft using openGL: http://mrduck.hopto.org/img/wow-notexture.png
http://mrduck.hopto.org/img/wow-logon.png . Textures are present while using d3d, though the performance is horrible (d3d gives up to 3fps).
Had performance problems with 8.40 too, textures in WoW were present, but it ran in 4-10fps with oGL.

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I have the same problem with WoW.
On my ATI 9700 mobility the new driver seemed to work great, without any glitches or something.
And I also had some frames more in glxgears and fgg_glxgears.
So the next thing I wanted to test was how much frames would there be more in WoW...
...to my surprise the framerate doubled.
But unfortunately only the half game was rendered. No Characters, many objekts missing.

I really hope there is a solution for this...

**FunkyRider** · 10-25-2007, 08:28 AM

That half game rendered explained why your frame rate doubled: there was simply fewer things to render!

**MrDuck** · 10-25-2007, 02:51 PM

Originally Posted by FunkyRider

That half game rendered explained why your frame rate doubled: there was simply fewer things to render!

That's pretty possible,i think so too,however...i think it's just rendered by CPU,not a GPU :/ Though there's nothing in console :-( Lost the logs coz i kinda destroyed my partition(damn, 100G of data :/),but will try to get it back asap and will make new ones.

**sastraxi** · 11-26-2007, 06:44 PM

A clean install also made my AIGLX setup work.

I'm only bumping this thread up again because these issues have come back. It doesn't seem to make any sense, and it persists over reboot. I can no longer use AIGLX anymore, and I was using it fine just an hour ago... No changes have been made, apart from switching from dual-head to single-head mode (which I had done about 5 other times over yesterday and today with no problems).

This is really, really crazy stuff. I have no clue what I've done to change things!

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