xf86-video-ati

strange white lines on Unity launcher/dash

Bug #718928 reported by Greg A on 2011-02-14

This bug affects 3 people

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
Unity	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned
xf86-video-ati	New	Undecided	Unassigned
unity (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: unity

See the screenshot. This happened straight after booting. I took the screenshot with gnome-screenshot. Running compiz --replace fixed the problem.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: unity 3.4.2-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-3.30-generic 2.6.38-rc4
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-3-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
DRM.card0.HDMI.A.1:
status: disconnected
enabled: disabled
dpms: On
modes:
edid-base64:
DRM.card0.VGA.1:
status: connected
enabled: enabled
dpms: On
modes: 1280x1024 1280x1024 1152x864 1024x768 1024x768 800x600 800x600 640x480 640x480 720x400
edid-base64: AP///////wAQrBRATFk4MiMQAQNoJh54Ls5Qo1RMmSYPUFSlSwBxT4GAAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBMCoAmFEAKkAwcBMAeC0RAAAeAAAA/wA2NDE4MDY4UzI4WUwKAAAA/ABERUxMIDE5MDdGUAogAAAA/QA4TB9TDgAKICAgICAgACU=
Date: Mon Feb 14 18:50:24 2011
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: natty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
GraphicsCard: Subsystem: Hightech Information System Ltd. Device [1787:2271]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110127)
InstallationMedia_: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110127)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Dell DXP061
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-3-generic root=UUID=8edb1aef-0dda-4612-8fdc-5373889f01d7 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
ProcVersionSignature_: Ubuntu 2.6.38-3.30-generic 2.6.38-rc4
SourcePackage: unity
dmi.bios.date: 11/22/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 2.5.3
dmi.board.name: 0WG855
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 7
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvr2.5.3:bd11/22/2007:svnDellInc.:pnDellDXP061:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0WG855:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct7:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Dell DXP061
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.2.1+glibmainloop4-0ubuntu11
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.23-1ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.10-1ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6~3ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.13.2+git20110124.fadee040-0ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.14.0-1ubuntu7
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110107+b795ca6e-0ubuntu4

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Greg A (etulfetulf) wrote on 2011-02-14:

Screenshot.png Edit (65.1 KiB, image/png)
BootDmesg.txt Edit (66.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DRM.card0.DVI.I.1.txt Edit (361 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (5.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GdmLog.txt Edit (42.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GdmLog1.txt Edit (41.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GdmLog2.txt Edit (62.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (13.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb.txt Edit (1011 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (1.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (1.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (2.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (149.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevLog.txt Edit (316.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UnitySupportTest.txt Edit (969 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLog.txt Edit (51.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLogOld.txt Edit (52.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Xrandr.txt Edit (6.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xdpyinfo.txt Edit (17.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Mirco Müller (macslow) wrote on 2011-02-16:

That looks very much like a graphics-driver bug.

affects:

unity → xf86-video-ati

Alex Launi (alexlauni) on 2011-02-17

Changed in unity:
status:	New → Invalid
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Invalid

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IKT (ikt) wrote on 2011-04-02:

whitelines.png Edit (32.1 KiB, image/png)

I am also getting strange white lines.

Using the open source ati driver.

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Greg A (etulfetulf) wrote on 2011-04-10:

Screenshot.png Edit (1.7 MiB, image/png)

I'm seeing this on the Dash now. I haven't seen it on the launcher for some time.

summary:

- strange white lines on Unity launcher
+ strange white lines on Unity launcher/dash

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Greg A (etulfetulf) wrote on 2011-04-10:

Screenshot.png Edit (1.7 MiB, image/png)

I'm seeing this on the Dash now. I haven't seen it on the launcher for some time.

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Chris Johnson (raugturi) wrote on 2011-04-28:

Screenshot.png Edit (203.7 KiB, image/png)

I had the same issue and realized I was on the vesa driver. Now I've changed to radeon and instead of the same lines you are seeing I now see a sequence of white blocks at the top of the dash itself.

If this is a driver issue, it appears to be something that unity is doing when drawing various sections of the dash and launcher that affects different parts of multiple drivers.

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Chris Johnson (raugturi) wrote on 2011-04-28:

Sorry, forgot to include that running "compiz --replace" also removes these for me.