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DcUK

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Registered: 2009-04-09

Posts: 10

[SOLVED] xf86-video-intel update to 2.99.912-1 breaks video rendering

After a full system update today video  playback in X windows (both hardware-accelerated and not) breaks horribly. Playing back videos causes tearing, black areas of the screen and then a hard lock-up.

Looking back through the updated packages and testing one-by-one reveals the immediate culprit to be the update to xf86-video-intel from 2.99.911-2 to 2.99.912-1. Rolling back just this package restores everything to working order (including hardware-accelerated video).

Other hopefully relevant installed packages:

linux 3.15.1-1
libva 1.3.1-1
libva-intel-driver 1.3.2-1
mesa 10.2.1-2
mesa-libgl 10.2.1-2
intel-dri 10.2.1-2

My GPU is Intel(R) HD Graphics 2500, the CPU is Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-3220T.

With either version of xf86-video-intel installed my desktop environment loads successfully, and works normally, up to the point where any video playback is attempted.

Other information from X.org.0.log:

[  2069.648] (--) intel(0): Integrated Graphics Chipset: Intel(R) HD Graphics 2500
[  2069.648] (--) intel(0): CPU: x86-64, sse2, sse3, ssse3, sse4.1, sse4.2, avx
[  2069.648] (II) intel(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section
        "Default Screen Section" for depth/fbbpp 24/32
[  2069.648] (==) intel(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
[  2069.648] (==) intel(0): RGB weight 888
[  2069.648] (==) intel(0): Default visual is TrueColor
[  2069.648] (**) intel(0): Option "AccelMethod" "sna"
[  2069.648] (**) intel(0): Option "TearFree" "true"
[  2069.649] (**) intel(0): Framebuffer tiled
[  2069.649] (**) intel(0): Pixmaps tiled
[  2069.649] (**) intel(0): "Tear free" enabled
[  2069.649] (**) intel(0): Forcing per-crtc-pixmaps? no
[  2069.649] (--) intel(0): Output HDMI2 using initial mode 1920x1080 on pipe 0
[  2069.649] (==) intel(0): DPI set to (96, 96)
[  2069.649] (II) Loading sub module "dri2"
[  2069.649] (II) LoadModule: "dri2"
[  2069.649] (II) Module "dri2" already built-in
[  2069.649] (==) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
[  2069.649] (II) intel(0): SNA initialized with Ivybridge (gen7, gt1) backend
[  2069.649] (==) intel(0): Backing store enabled
[  2069.649] (==) intel(0): Silken mouse enabled
[  2069.649] (II) intel(0): HW Cursor enabled
[  2069.649] (II) intel(0): RandR 1.2 enabled, ignore the following RandR disabled message.
[  2069.649] (==) intel(0): DPMS enabled
[  2069.649] (II) intel(0): [DRI2] Setup complete
[  2069.649] (II) intel(0): [DRI2]   DRI driver: i965
[  2069.649] (II) intel(0): [DRI2]   VDPAU driver: i965
[  2069.649] (II) intel(0): direct rendering: DRI2 Enabled

Last edited by DcUK (2014-06-18 19:55:32)

DcUK

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Registered: 2009-04-09

Posts: 10

Re: [SOLVED] xf86-video-intel update to 2.99.912-1 breaks video rendering

I tried removing the only non-standard option enabled for my xf86-video-intel driver (Tear-Free) and updated back to 2.99.912-1 successfully.

I can now play videos again without it completely locking up my video output and the glitches that used to be present that caused me to enable Tear-Free seem to be missing with the new driver version also.

jrk

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From: Nämberch

Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 37

Re: [SOLVED] xf86-video-intel update to 2.99.912-1 breaks video rendering

I had the same issue and downgrading to 2.99.911 fixed it.
Could you file a bug report for the package to disable the Tear-Free option again?
Thanks!

[Edit]
I took a look at the package files and couldn't see anything related to "Tear-Free". Would you mind to tell me what you meant?
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[Edit 2]
This seems related. However, I don't feel like patching and building the driver. I guess I just wait for 913 and complain again if it's still broken then.
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Last edited by jrk (2014-07-01 18:00:47)