What is it this artifacts?

[trebol-a]

Hi all,
I need some help, I have no idea about the origin of this artifacts. I have test every posible configuration file.
Look this screencapture:

This pattern appear over ALL application that use OPENGL. On Xorg or Xgl and is visible on areas with gradients (the decoration window bye example). If I used Xorg this artifacts appear over flash elements. If I set Xgl-Compiz the flash elements are show fine but the artifacts show over decorations window and shadows ... If I go to KDE4 appears for everywhere

Any suggestion are wellcome.....

Thank you very much....

The system is:
Opensuse 10.3
Nvidia 8600 GT PCI-E with dualhead and two monitors connected
Kernel 2.6.22.19-0.1-default
Driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.06

(I have testing a lot of combination of kernels-drivers nvidia with the same result, ... the last version drivers not solved this problem.)

I have testing too a lot of parameters on my xorg.conf , now this is my xorg.conf:
Xorg.conf -------------------------------------------------------

Section "Modes"
    Identifier         "Modos"
    ModeLine     "1680x1050" 147.1 1680 1784 1968 2256 1050 1051 1054 1087
    ModeLine     "3360x1050" 146.2 3360 1960 2136 2240 1050 1053 1059 1089
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor1"
    VendorName     "--> LCD"
    ModelName      "1680X1050@60HZ"
    UseModes       "Modos"
    DisplaySize     340    270
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor2"
    VendorName     "--> LCD"
    ModelName      "1680X1050@60HZ"
    UseModes       "Modos"
    DisplaySize     340    270
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Tarjeta"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA"
    BoardName      "GeForce 8600 GT"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Pantalla1"
    Device         "Tarjeta"
    Monitor        "Monitor1"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "TwinView" "True"
    Option         "MetaModes" "1680x1050,1680x1050"
    Option         "TwinViewOrientation" "RightOf"
    Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
    Option         "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True"
    Option         "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
    Option         "BackingStore" "True"
    Option         "RenderAccel" "True"
    Option         "DamageEvents" "True"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       1
        Modes      "1680x1050" "1280x1024"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       4
        Modes      "1680x1050" "1280x1024"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       8
        Modes      "1680x1050" "1280x1024"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       16
        Modes      "1680x1050" "1280x1024"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1680x1050" "1280x1024"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option         "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Xorg.0.log show this----------------------------------------------------

(II) Setting vga for screen 0.
(**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
(==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
(==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "RenderAccel" "True"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "TwinView" "True"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "TwinViewOrientation" "RightOf"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "MetaModes" "1680x1050,1680x1050"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "TransparentIndex" "40"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "DamageEvents" "True"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Overlay transparency index is 40
(**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration
(**) NVIDIA(0): TwinView enabled
(II) NVIDIA(0): Support for GLX with the Damage and Composite X extensions is
(II) NVIDIA(0):     enabled.
(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce 8600 GT (G84) at PCI:4:0:0 (GPU-0)
(--) NVIDIA(0): Memory: 1048576 kBytes
(--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 60.84.54.00.55
(II) NVIDIA(0): Detected PCI Express Link width: 16X
(--) NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are supported on this GPU
(--) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s) on GeForce 8600 GT at PCI:4:0:0:
(--) NVIDIA(0):     Acer X223W (CRT-0)
(--) NVIDIA(0):     Acer X223W (CRT-1)
(--) NVIDIA(0):     NVIDIA TV Encoder (TV-0)
(--) NVIDIA(0): Acer X223W (CRT-0): 400.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
(--) NVIDIA(0): Acer X223W (CRT-1): 400.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
(--) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA TV Encoder (TV-0): 400.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
(--) NVIDIA(0): TV encoder: NVIDIA
(II) NVIDIA(0): Assigned Display Devices: CRT-0, CRT-1
(II) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes:
(II) NVIDIA(0):     "1680x1050,1680x1050"
(II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 3360 x 1050
(--) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (90, 88); computed from "UseEdidDpi" X config
(--) NVIDIA(0):     option
(**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling 32-bit ARGB GLX visuals.
(--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
(II) do I need RAC?  No, I don't.
(II) resource ranges after preInit:
        [0] 0   0       0xe8000000 - 0xe9ffffff (0x2000000) MX[b]
        [1] 0   0       0xd0000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x10000000) MX[b]
        [2] 0   0       0xea000000 - 0xeaffffff (0x1000000) MX[b]
        [3] -1  0       0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[b]E(B)
        [4] -1  0       0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[b]
        [5] -1  0       0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[b]
        [6] -1  0       0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[b]
        [7] -1  0       0xec20f000 - 0xec20ffff (0x1000) MX[b]
        [8] -1  0       0xec20d000 - 0xec20dfff (0x1000) MX[b]
        [9] -1  0       0xec20b000 - 0xec20bfff (0x1000) MX[b]
        [10] -1 0       0xec209000 - 0xec209fff (0x1000) MX[b]
        [11] -1 0       0xec207000 - 0xec207fff (0x1000) MX[b]
        [12] -1 0       0xec205000 - 0xec205fff (0x1000) MX[b]
        [13] -1 0       0xec203000 - 0xec203fff (0x1000) MX[b]
        [14] -1 0       0xec201000 - 0xec201fff (0x1000) MX[b]
        [15] -1 0       0xec107000 - 0xec107fff (0x1000) MX[b]
        [16] -1 0       0xec105000 - 0xec105fff (0x1000) MX[b]
        [17] -1 0       0xec103000 - 0xec103fff (0x1000) MX[b]
        [18] -1 0       0xec101000 - 0xec101fff (0x1000) MX[b]
        [19] -1 0       0xec000000 - 0xec003fff (0x4000) MX[b]
        [20] -1 0       0xec004000 - 0xec0047ff (0x800) MX[b]
        [21] -1 0       0xec309000 - 0xec30900f (0x10) MX[b]
        [22] -1 0       0xec308000 - 0xec3080ff (0x100) MX[b]
        [23] -1 0       0xec307000 - 0xec307fff (0x1000) MX[b]
        [24] -1 0       0xec300000 - 0xec303fff (0x4000) MX[b]
        [25] -1 0       0xec30b000 - 0xec30bfff (0x1000) MX[b]
        [26] -1 0       0xec30a000 - 0xec30afff (0x1000) MX[b]
        [27] -1 0       0xec306000 - 0xec306fff (0x1000) MX[b]
        [28] -1 0       0xec305000 - 0xec3050ff (0x100) MX[b]
        [29] -1 0       0xec304000 - 0xec304fff (0x1000) MX[b]
        [30] -1 0       0xe8000000 - 0xe9ffffff (0x2000000) MX[b](B)
        [31] -1 0       0xd0000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x10000000) MX[b](B)
        [32] -1 0       0xea000000 - 0xeaffffff (0x1000000) MX[b](B)
        [33] -1 0       0xec20e000 - 0xec20efff (0x1000) MX[b](B)
        [34] -1 0       0xec20c000 - 0xec20cfff (0x1000) MX[b](B)
        [35] -1 0       0xec20a000 - 0xec20afff (0x1000) MX[b](B)
        [36] -1 0       0xec208000 - 0xec208fff (0x1000) MX[b](B)
        [37] -1 0       0xec206000 - 0xec206fff (0x1000) MX[b](B)
        [38] -1 0       0xec204000 - 0xec204fff (0x1000) MX[b](B)
        [39] -1 0       0xec202000 - 0xec202fff (0x1000) MX[b](B)
        [40] -1 0       0xec200000 - 0xec200fff (0x1000) MX[b](B)
        [41] -1 0       0xec106000 - 0xec106fff (0x1000) MX[b](B)
        [42] -1 0       0xec104000 - 0xec104fff (0x1000) MX[b](B)
        [43] -1 0       0xec102000 - 0xec102fff (0x1000) MX[b](B)
        [44] -1 0       0xec100000 - 0xec100fff (0x1000) MX[b](B)
        [45] 0  0       0x000a0000 - 0x000affff (0x10000) MS[b](OprD)
        [46] 0  0       0x000b0000 - 0x000b7fff (0x8000) MS[b](OprD)
        [47] 0  0       0x000b8000 - 0x000bffff (0x8000) MS[b](OprD)
        [48] 0  0       0x00009000 - 0x0000907f (0x80) IX[b]
        [49] -1 0       0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[b]
        [50] -1 0       0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[b]
        [51] -1 0       0x0000e400 - 0x0000e407 (0x8) IX[b]
        [52] -1 0       0x0000e000 - 0x0000e00f (0x10) IX[b]
        [53] -1 0       0x0000dc00 - 0x0000dc03 (0x4) IX[b]
        [54] -1 0       0x0000d800 - 0x0000d807 (0x8) IX[b]
        [55] -1 0       0x0000d400 - 0x0000d403 (0x4) IX[b]
        [56] -1 0       0x0000d000 - 0x0000d007 (0x8) IX[b]
        [57] -1 0       0x0000cc00 - 0x0000cc0f (0x10) IX[b]
        [58] -1 0       0x0000c800 - 0x0000c803 (0x4) IX[b]
        [59] -1 0       0x0000c400 - 0x0000c407 (0x8) IX[b]
        [60] -1 0       0x0000c000 - 0x0000c003 (0x4) IX[b]
        [61] -1 0       0x0000bc00 - 0x0000bc07 (0x8) IX[b]
        [62] -1 0       0x0000b800 - 0x0000b80f (0x10) IX[b]
        [63] -1 0       0x0000b400 - 0x0000b403 (0x4) IX[b]
        [64] -1 0       0x0000b000 - 0x0000b007 (0x8) IX[b]
        [65] -1 0       0x0000ac00 - 0x0000ac03 (0x4) IX[b]
        [66] -1 0       0x0000a800 - 0x0000a807 (0x8) IX[b]
        [67] -1 0       0x0000f000 - 0x0000f00f (0x10) IX[b]
        [68] -1 0       0x00001c80 - 0x00001cbf (0x40) IX[b]
        [69] -1 0       0x00001c00 - 0x00001c3f (0x40) IX[b]
        [70] -1 0       0x0000e800 - 0x0000e83f (0x40) IX[b]
        [71] -1 0       0x00009000 - 0x0000907f (0x80) IX[b](B)
        [72] 0  0       0x000003b0 - 0x000003bb (0xc) IS[b](OprU)
        [73] 0  0       0x000003c0 - 0x000003df (0x20) IS[b](OprU)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1680x1050,1680x1050"
(II) Loading extension NV-GLX
(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA 3D Acceleration Architecture Initialized
(II) NVIDIA(0): Using the NVIDIA 2D acceleration architecture
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "BackingStore" "True"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Backing store enabled
(==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled
(II) Loading extension NV-CONTROL
(II) Loading extension XINERAMA
(==) RandR enabled
(II) Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM
(II) Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension
(II) Initializing built-in extension XTEST
(II) Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD
(II) Initializing built-in extension XC-APPGROUP
(II) Initializing built-in extension XAccessControlExtension
(II) Initializing built-in extension SECURITY
(II) Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA
(II) Initializing built-in extension XFIXES
(II) Initializing built-in extension XFree86-Bigfont
(II) Initializing built-in extension RENDER
(II) Initializing built-in extension RANDR
(II) Initializing built-in extension COMPOSITE
(II) Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE
(II) Initializing built-in extension XEVIE
(II) Initializing extension GLX
(**) Option "CoreKeyboard"

[trebol-a]

Any hint?
Nobody know something about the origin of this ?


thanx

[kernelOfTruth]

this looks like some memory problem to me

I experienced similar "artifacts" / "corruption" when using my voodoo2 and the memory got too warm (or was it my TNT2m64 ?)

how warm is your card getting ?

any chance to measure it's (memory) temperature or anything near it ?

[LostinSpacetime]

Update the driver ..there's no point in reporting bugs of outdated drivers without trying out the newest driver.

[trebol-a]

Hi,
LostinSpacetime, I have testing the last 7 versions drivers. (last beta included) and the 2 lasts versions of kernel. The problem appear in all combinations, in Xorg and Xgl, with default configurations and customs.

KernelOftruth, the core temperature in the card is 45C, I think it is normal, ( in this room is too much cold

I dont sure, but I discard the hardware error because the problem is ONLY with the transparencies, alpha channel.