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89c51

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Enlightenment starts with a garbled screen. (Mesa related)

After updating:

[2015-03-16 08:24] [ALPM] transaction started
[2015-03-16 08:24] [ALPM] upgraded bluez-libs (5.28-1 -> 5.29-1)
[2015-03-16 08:24] [ALPM] upgraded llvm-libs (3.5.1-1 -> 3.6.0-3)
[2015-03-16 08:24] [ALPM] upgraded libx11 (1.6.2-2 -> 1.6.3-1)
[2015-03-16 08:24] [ALPM] upgraded kmod (19-1 -> 20-1)
[2015-03-16 08:24] [ALPM] upgraded e2fsprogs (1.42.12-1 -> 1.42.12-2)
[2015-03-16 08:24] [ALPM] upgraded mesa (10.4.6-1 -> 10.5.1-2)
[2015-03-16 08:24] [ALPM] upgraded mesa-libgl (10.4.6-1 -> 10.5.1-2)
[2015-03-16 08:24] [ALPM] upgraded cairo (1.14.0-2 -> 1.14.2-1)
[2015-03-16 08:24] [ALPM] upgraded curl (7.40.0-1 -> 7.41.0-1)
[2015-03-16 08:24] [ALPM] upgraded iproute2 (3.18.0-1 -> 3.19.0-1)
[2015-03-16 08:24] [ALPM] upgraded libva-mesa-driver (10.4.6-1 -> 10.5.1-2)
[2015-03-16 08:24] [ALPM] upgraded logrotate (3.8.8-2 -> 3.8.9-1)
[2015-03-16 08:24] [ALPM] upgraded mesa-vdpau (10.4.6-1 -> 10.5.1-2)
[2015-03-16 08:24] [ALPM] warning: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist installed as /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.pacnew
[2015-03-16 08:24] [ALPM] upgraded pacman-mirrorlist (20150228-1 -> 20150315-1)
[2015-03-16 08:24] [ALPM] upgraded randrproto (1.4.0-2 -> 1.4.1-1)
[2015-03-16 08:24] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-font-util (1.3.0-2 -> 1.3.1-1)
[2015-03-16 08:24] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-server-common (1.17.1-3 -> 1.17.1-4)
[2015-03-16 08:24] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-server (1.17.1-3 -> 1.17.1-4)
[2015-03-16 08:24] [ALPM] transaction completed

one of these packages. Downgrading solves it of course but what is the cause.

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by 89c51 (2015-03-19 09:35:14)

89c51

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Re: Enlightenment starts with a garbled screen. (Mesa related)

BTW anyone else facing anything similar (i am on a radeon 6850). I 've seen various topics mentioning problems with the latest updates but nothing seems to match. Didn't find anything in the logs.

89c51

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Re: Enlightenment starts with a garbled screen. (Mesa related)

OK some more digging. The problem appears to be in mesa. I updated the whole system > rebooted >ended with a garbled screen and then downgraded:

sudo pacman -U llvm-libs-3.5.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz mesa-10.4.6-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz mesa-libgl-10.4.6-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz libva-mesa-driver-10.4.6-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz mesa-vdpau-10.4.6-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

These packages. And it works.

How do i solve that. Do i have to wait for a new mesa from upstream?

bjo

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Registered: 2011-09-10

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Re: Enlightenment starts with a garbled screen. (Mesa related)

I have a garbled screen after resuming from suspend, running XFCE on a Radeon HD 4670. I will check if downgrading those packages helps also in my case.

89c51

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Re: Enlightenment starts with a garbled screen. (Mesa related)

@bjo have you digged any further? And did downgrading fixed it?

bjo

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Re: Enlightenment starts with a garbled screen. (Mesa related)

Not yet, I wasn't at home since thursdays where the machine stays.

Soukyuu

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Re: Enlightenment starts with a garbled screen. (Mesa related)

It seems to be related to radeon cards somehow, there is a thread about it here, though most users there are on a 6130

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89c51

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Re: Enlightenment starts with a garbled screen. (Mesa related)

Thanks. My problem is much more severe than that. I get garbage on the screen and a pointer. No way to do anything on the computer.

bjo

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Re: Enlightenment starts with a garbled screen. (Mesa related)

Yep, I only get grey and white pattern, some are bigger and some smaller, one is the mouse pointer. And restarting X does not help. I will later check if it also happens with the lts-kernel. Somehow it seems I have this issue since Kernel 3.19.1.

bjo

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Re: Enlightenment starts with a garbled screen. (Mesa related)

I tried to reproduce the issue with 3.18.6 - and get no issue. No garbled screen, also waking the system up via a keyboard press works fine, which didn't work with 3.19.1. So it seems to be kernel related.

Edit: In my case, it seems to be related to an unclean suspend.

Last edited by bjo (2015-03-24 16:22:21)

89c51

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Re: Enlightenment starts with a garbled screen. (Mesa related)

I suspect then that your problem is not related to mine. Anyway.

BTW is there any other E19/radeon user that has similar problems??