Bug 43112

Summary:	AMD/ATI graphic cards sometimes produces weird black squares in screen
Product:	Drivers	Reporter:	Fran Dieguez (fran.dieguez)
Component:	Video(DRI - non Intel)	Assignee:	drivers_video-dri
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	alan, alexdeucher
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	3.4.0-rc2 x86_64	Subsystem:
Regression:	No	Bisected commit-id:
Attachments:	Screenshot of Empathy window

Description Fran Dieguez 2012-04-16 22:51:37 UTC

Created attachment 72933 [details]
Screenshot of Empathy window

Mostly in empathy and in window titlebar's text, AMD/ATI graphic cards both in GNOME and Unity produces weird black squares replacing the text. I attach an screenshot.

This issue is present in different computers with the next AMD/ATI GPUs.

Macbook Pro 8,2:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Seymour [Radeon HD 6400M Series]

iMac:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI M56P [Radeon Mobility X1600]

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI M56P [Radeon Mobility X1600]


This bug was originally posted in Launchpad, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/979712 , where you can find More information about this bug.

Comment 1 Alan 2012-05-11 23:31:12 UTC

Looks more like this may be an X server bug ?

Comment 2 Alex Deucher 2012-05-12 03:46:06 UTC

Likely a duplicate of:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47266