screen artifacts, X220, graphics/drm-fbsd12.0-kmod

Joseph Mingrone jrm at ftfl.ca
Thu Aug 8 19:47:22 UTC 2019


Kevin Oberman <rkoberman at gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 12:01 PM Joseph Mingrone <jrm at freebsd.org> wrote:

>> Hi,

>> The artifacts and flashing on the screen only seem to last for maybe 15
>> minutes after rebooting, then things settle down.  This has been going
>> on for a few months.  Here is a screenshot:
>> https://ftfl.ca/misc/screen_artifacts.jpg

>> The information requested on https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics#Reporting
>> is below.

>> Regards,

>> Joseph

> I am also seeing this behavior on my T520. It is Sandy Bridge which I
> believe is the same as your X200.

> While the artifacts disappear after a while, I can immediately exit X (I
> start X with startx, so I just logout to get back to the shell) and start
> it again. No issues after restarting. I run the same
> drm-fbsd12.0-kmod-4.16.g20190722_1 but I am running mesa-dri-19.0.0, a
> proposed update that has not been committed and is now EOL. Looks like an
> initialization issue of some sort. I have never seen this except on the
> first start of X after a boot.

> It's only an annoyance, but I really should open a bug report.  I am not
> familiar with doing this on github where the FreeBSD X work is being done,
> so I've been procrastinating.
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Ah, good to know.  Thanks.

Perhaps the wiki should be updated if the Graphics team prefers problems
to be reported on GitHub, rather than what is described on the wiki.

--
Joseph
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