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fglrx-installer package

Unity desktop misbehaves with applications that use direct rendering with the FGLRX driver

Bug #1390234 reported by Maxim Therrien on 2014-11-06

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This bug affects 26 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	fglrx-installer (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	High	Unassigned

Bug Description

I've been using Ubuntu 14.10 for a while now, and I ended up switching to the FGLRX driver for performance reasons. My laptop is an Acer Aspire 5742G-7353 with an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470 video chip on it. I have noticed that some applications (So far, I've only seen Blender and Chromium do this) displays a little bit (maybe 10-20 pixels?) to the right when maximized. The drivers that are available from the ATI website worked fine, but I had to use the version from the repos since it no longer works with 14.10. Problem only exists in the repo version.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2225451
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2241392

Edit: I have switched to KDE and seen it happen in Blender with kwin compositing on. The bug disappeared immediately after disabling compositing.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: fglrx 2:14.201-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-24.32-generic 3.16.4
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:

ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: compiz
CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0'
CompositorUnredirectFSW: true
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Nov 6 17:00:08 2014
DistUpgraded: 2014-10-26 22:08:12,603 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
DistroCodename: utopic
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus: fglrx-core, 14.201, 3.16.0-24-generic, x86_64: installed
GraphicsCard:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Park [Mobility Radeon HD 5430/5450/5470] [1002:68e0] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0487]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-10-21 (15 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
Lsusb:
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0402:9665 ALi Corp. Gateway Webcam
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: Acer Aspire 5742G
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-24-generic root=UUID=4c5be90d-5004-4ef9-9229-6692e492d1e5 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: fglrx-installer
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-10-27 (10 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 09/27/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Acer
dmi.bios.version: V1.07
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: Aspire 5742G
dmi.board.vendor: Acer
dmi.board.version: V1.07
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer
dmi.chassis.version: V1.07
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAcer:bvrV1.07:bd09/27/2010:svnAcer:pnAspire5742G:pvrV1.07:rvnAcer:rnAspire5742G:rvrV1.07:cvnAcer:ct10:cvrV1.07:
dmi.product.name: Aspire 5742G
dmi.product.version: V1.07
dmi.sys.vendor: Acer
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.12+14.10.20140918-0ubuntu1
version.fglrx-installer: fglrx-installer N/A
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.56-1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 10.3.0-0ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 10.3.0-0ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.16.0-1ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.9.0-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.4.0-2ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.914-1~exp1ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.11-1ubuntu2
xserver.bootTime: Thu Nov 6 16:51:13 2014
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.errors:
open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory
AIGLX error: failed to open /usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so, error[/usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]
AIGLX error: failed to open /usr/lib64/dri/fglrx_dri.so, error[/usr/lib64/dri/fglrx_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]
AIGLX error: failed to open /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so, error[/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]
xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.version: 2:1.16.0-1ubuntu1
xserver.video_driver: fglrx

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Maxim Therrien (acerspyro) wrote on 2014-11-06:

BootDmesg.txt Edit (54.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
BootLog.txt Edit (6.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (2.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (6.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgLog.txt Edit (25.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GconfCompiz.txt Edit (45.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
LightdmDisplayLog.txt Edit (1.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
LightdmGreeterLog.txt Edit (9.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
LightdmGreeterLogOld.txt Edit (6.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
LightdmLog.txt Edit (4.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (12.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
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ProcEnviron.txt Edit (117 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
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UdevDb.txt Edit (131.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevLog.txt Edit (311.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UnitySupportTest.txt Edit (638 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLog.txt Edit (62.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLogOld.txt Edit (36.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Xrandr.txt Edit (3.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
drirc.txt Edit (930 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xdpyinfo.txt Edit (21.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xserver.devices.txt Edit (408 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xserver.outputs.txt Edit (976 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Maxim Therrien (acerspyro) on 2014-11-19

description:

updated

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2014-11-19:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in fglrx-installer (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e) on 2014-11-24

Changed in fglrx-installer (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → High

Maxim Therrien (acerspyro) on 2014-11-28

summary:

- Unity desktop misbehaves with some applications with the FGLRX driver
+ Unity desktop misbehaves with applications that use direct rendering
+ with the FGLRX driver

Maxim Therrien (acerspyro) on 2014-12-06

description:

updated

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Paulo Narciso (p-narciso) wrote on 2014-12-17:

I woul like to update this issue to say that this problem still happens with the latest Catalyst 14.12.

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Marcin Jakubowski (mjakubowski) wrote on 2015-02-11:

Also happens with Google Chrome. If the application starts in maximized mode, it will render its contents fine, until demaximized and maximized again.

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Marko (markotheprogrammer) wrote on 2015-02-11:

Also happens with Opera and it happened to me with vlc(fullscreen).

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iBART (mogio) wrote on 2015-03-18:

Confirmed, with Chrome, Chrome Beta and Chromium but if I disable the hardware acceleration this bug disappears.

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vinod777 (vinod777) wrote on 2015-03-27:

This bug appears for Chrome, Chromium, Adobe brackets(node-webkit based app), Opera browser.
When disable hw acceleration in Opera, this bug disappears for Opera.

I also found that when an app is offsetted, toggling "Snapping Windows" in Compiz will make the app display correctly. Completely enabling/disabling wont work forever, you need to toggle it when an app is in offsetted state.

Ubuntu 14.10 fresh install
Tried with AMD drivers from AMD site and fglrx-updates from ubuntu repo. Not fixed.

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Marko (markotheprogrammer) wrote on 2015-03-27:

This seems to have been fixed with catalyst 15.3 driver(currently its not available for download for linux unless you are using Ubuntu 15.04, Canonical always gets amd driver first).

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