Nouveau tiling problem with firefox

Bug #608613 reported by Marc Deslauriers
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
pixman (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Robert Hooker

Bug Description

Binary package hint: xorg

Performing a google image search with firefox shows images with a tiling problem.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: xorg 1:7.5+6ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-9.14-generic 2.6.35-rc5
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-9-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
DRM.card0.DVI.D.1:
 status: disconnected
 enabled: disabled
 dpms: Off
 modes:
 edid-base64:
DRM.card0.LVDS.1:
 status: connected
 enabled: enabled
 dpms: On
 modes: 1680x1050 1680x1050 1680x1050 1400x1050 1280x1024 1280x960 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 720x400 640x400 640x350
 edid-base64: AP///////wAwrlNAAAAAAAERAQOAIRV46of1lFdPjCcnUFQAAAABAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBqC+Q4GAaEEAgQBMAS88QAAAZtyeQ4GAaEEAgQBMAS88QAAAZAAAADwCzCjKzCigUAQAGr3QkAAAA/gBCMTU0U1cwMSBWOSAKAIs=
DRM.card0.VGA.1:
 status: disconnected
 enabled: disabled
 dpms: Off
 modes:
 edid-base64:
Date: Thu Jul 22 11:02:32 2010
DkmsStatus:

EcryptfsInUse: Yes
MachineType: LENOVO 6459CTO
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.35-9-generic root=/dev/mapper/defaultvg-root ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_CA.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
dmi.bios.date: 11/14/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 7LETC5WW (2.25 )
dmi.board.name: 6459CTO
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr7LETC5WW(2.25):bd11/14/2008:svnLENOVO:pn6459CTO:pvrThinkPadT61:rvnLENOVO:rn6459CTO:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 6459CTO
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T61
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: maverick
 architecture: x86_64
 kernel: 2.6.35-9-generic

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Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur) wrote :
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Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur) wrote :

See attached image for example.

Bryce Harrington (bryce)
affects: xorg (Ubuntu) → xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Ubuntu)
Bryce Harrington (bryce)
Changed in xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Ray Kohler (ataraxia937) wrote :

I see this problem on non-Ubuntu systems (Arch Linux) as well, so it is almost certainly entirely upstream.

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Robert Hooker (sarvatt) wrote :

Upstream has stated that this appears to be a pixman bug that is fixed in git and needs to be brought back to the stable branch.

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/2010-August/006213.html

I have packaged it up in a PPA, would you mind testing it before I upload it?

https://edge.launchpad.net/~sarvatt/+archive/sarvatt-graphics

affects: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Ubuntu) → pixman (Ubuntu)
Changed in pixman (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Robert Hooker (sarvatt)
status: Confirmed → In Progress
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Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur) wrote :

The upload works great for me. Thanks!

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package pixman - 0.18.2-1ubuntu1

---------------
pixman (0.18.2-1ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  * Add 100_check_read_accessor.patch: Fixes corruption seen in firefox
    due to REPEAT_NONE for a XRGB source fallback being triggered in a
    composite operation. (LP: #608613)
 -- Robert Hooker <email address hidden> Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:54:32 -0400

Changed in pixman (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
papukaija (papukaija)
summary: - [maverick] nouveau tiling problem with firefox
+ Nouveau tiling problem with firefox
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