Slowdowns & graphical glitches after upgrade to 3.10 and Mesa

ctown.myth · 2013-07-27 06:25:05

Hello all,

I upgraded to linux-3.10.2-1-x86_64 recently and I'm getting major slowdowns overall.

- KDE is very slow to login
- when I change the brightness it takes a few more taps to change it and the overlay doesn't show up
- launching some apps take forever (ex. Dolphin)

This is odd, because when I launch some other apps such as Chromium, Konsole or mplayer2, they launch instantly, but launching Gwenview takes forever. I tried downgrading Akonadi, but that changed nothing. Right now my best guess is it might be something to do with Dbus?

Also I would get random graphical corruptions where if I put my cursor in a certain random position on the screen, I can get parts of the screen to be black and a few square boxes which are white. I'm not sure if this is a kernel issue or Mesa. Moving the cursor around causes the screen to flicker. After I Alt-Tab or switch to and back from a TTY, the corruptions go away.

I've currently degraded back to 3.9.9. I'm running a ThinkPad X230 with an HD 4000.

Thanks!

ctown.myth · 2013-07-27 06:40:15

Just updated to 3.10.3-1, things are snappy again! However, now I've the brightness problem, I think it's doing it in stages of 10 key 'hits' before leveling down. Before it was only in tenths, now I'm guessing it's counting in hundreds. I'll try out the Gnome brightness fix (acpi_osi), and edit this post if it works.

EDIT: Partial success, using acpi_osi="!Windows 2012" in the kernel line does give me back my tenths, however I still can't see the overlay of how bright my screen is in percentages.

Last edited by ctown.myth (2013-07-27 06:44:53)

Cthulhu82 · 2013-07-27 08:30:49

If you have enabled SNA, try to disable it. I have huge graphical perf problems with SNA and my HD4000.

ctown.myth · 2013-07-27 15:56:13

That's odd, I was under the impression that SNA was pretty stable. Oh well, at least it's only 2D

Crozepp · 2013-07-27 17:20:45

Hi.
I have the same slowliness maybe related to your problem. I don't think it's a mesa or a graphical related problem, in my case it happens with gwenview, konqueror or dolphin (seems that system takes time to acces to the files), it takes 10-15 seconds when normally it opens almost instantly, and I don't know how to reproduce: I don't see any error messages, it's random (sometimes everything runs fine sometimes don't), even if I restart the session the problem is still there, I have to reboot. I don't know if it's a KDE problem or not. I'm using XNA.

Sometimes login in KDE is very slow too.

Happens with nepomuk enabled or disabled.

Now I'm using kernel 3.10.3 and kde-unestable 4.10.97, and everything runs ok.

ctown.myth · 2013-07-28 06:46:22

Now I noticing after a while, I have started to get a couple of more graphical corruptions, here are the images:

- http://imgur.com/l8X8a4w - this one is pretty obvious
- http://imgur.com/WZqnbz6 - the corruption is on the sidebar icons in dolphin (home, network, images)

I had SNA and tear-free enabled in 20-intel.conf in xorg.conf.d, this happened after disabling both.

David Batson · 2013-07-28 10:34:08

Don't see any problems here on my X220 with HD 3000 (at least so far). I have SNA and TearFree enabled in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf.

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Intel Graphics"
    Driver      "intel"
    # Option      "SwapbuffersWait"  "true"
    Option      "AccelMethod"  "sna"
    Option      "TearFree"  "true"
EndSection

I am using the following drivers.

# pacman -Qs intel
local/intel-dri 9.1.5-1
    Mesa drivers for Intel
local/libva-intel-driver 1.2.0-1
    VA-API implementation for Intel G45 chipsets and Intel HD Graphics for Intel
    Core processor family.
local/xf86-video-intel 2.21.12-1 (xorg-drivers xorg)
    X.org Intel i810/i830/i915/945G/G965+ video drivers

I am also using compiz 0.8 with sync to vblank enabled (other compositors have this option as well) in XFCE.

ctown.myth · 2013-07-28 16:05:49

I just re-enabled both, but I still have the same issues, and my drivers are up-to-date as well:

local/intel-dri 9.1.5-1
    Mesa drivers for Intel
local/intel-tbb 4.1_20130613-1
    High level abstract threading library
local/lib32-intel-dri 9.1.5-1
    Mesa DRI drivers for Intel (32-bit)
local/libva-intel-driver 1.2.0-1
    VA-API implementation for Intel G45 chipsets and Intel HD Graphics for Intel Core processor family.
local/xf86-video-intel 2.21.12-1 (xorg-drivers xorg)
    X.org Intel i810/i830/i915/945G/G965+ video drivers

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Intel Graphics"
    Driver      "intel"
    Option      "AccelMethod"   "sna"
    Option      "TearFree"      "true"
EndSection

I found bug reports:
- https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60530
- https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/36154
- http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/l … el/1743038

First one suggests to install intel-gpu-tools, doing that right now and I'll get back here.

Last edited by ctown.myth (2013-07-28 16:12:14)

ctown.myth · 2013-07-28 16:38:24

Installing intel-gpu-tools don't work, I've added a bug report: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/36309

Cthulhu82 · 2013-07-28 20:21:28

ctown.myth wrote:

I had SNA and tear-free enabled in 20-intel.conf in xorg.conf.d, this happened after disabling both.

Strange, for me it's the opposite : I have these strange glitches on Qt apps when SNA is enabled, suppressing the "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf" solves it…

ctown.myth · 2013-07-29 04:15:33

An upgrade to linux-firmware solves the minor issues in Dolphin and Gwenview, haven't used it too long to experience major glitches.

BertiBoeller · 2013-08-05 18:08:54

Unfortunately an upgrade didn't solve the problem on my system. I've also tried to downgrade the kernel, mesa and the intel graphics driver but unfortunately that didn't help.

David Batson · 2013-08-05 20:30:48

I have problems with sna being enabled on Bodhi E17. I am using kernel 3.8.0-26 in Bodhi. Been reading a thread on Ubuntu bugzilla that this is a kernel issue. Some kernels work fine with sna enabled, and some do not.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … mments=all

FTR, I have no problems using sna acceleration in Arch XFCE, Fedora 18 Gnome, or Mageia 3 KDE with the same Sandy Bridge X220 laptop.

Mindstormscreator · 2013-09-28 21:55:44

I'm having a few occasional graphical glitches as well. I don't have a 20-intel.conf file, but I have intel 4000 graphics, and I believe that SNA is enabled by default now.

My drivers:

        local/intel-dri 9.2.0-2
    Mesa drivers for Intel
local/xf86-video-intel 2.21.15-1 (xorg-drivers xorg)
    X.org Intel i810/i830/i915/945G/G965+ video drivers

Example of graphical glitch: the { on one line is skewed, and the rest are wiped out.
c9IBjwE.png?1

But I experience others that are hard to capture since they disappear quickly. They are usually in Chromium, though.

Last edited by Mindstormscreator (2013-09-28 21:56:13)

ctown.myth · 2013-09-29 04:01:18

Mindstormscreator wrote:

I'm having a few occasional graphical glitches as well. I don't have a 20-intel.conf file, but I have intel 4000 graphics, and I believe that SNA is enabled by default now.
My drivers:
        local/intel-dri 9.2.0-2
    Mesa drivers for Intel
local/xf86-video-intel 2.21.15-1 (xorg-drivers xorg)
    X.org Intel i810/i830/i915/945G/G965+ video drivers
Example of graphical glitch: the { on one line is skewed, and the rest are wiped out.
http://i.imgur.com/c9IBjwE.png?1
But I experience others that are hard to capture since they disappear quickly. They are usually in Chromium, though.

Did you try to disable SNA?

Mindstormscreator · 2013-09-29 11:04:57

ctown.myth wrote:

Did you try to disable SNA?

I just did now, will report back later if I continue to experience glitches.

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Slowdowns & graphical glitches after upgrade to 3.10 and Mesa

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