Bug 17978

Summary:	All characters garbled in sddm with older ATI graphics card
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Herman Viaene <herman.viaene>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	KDE maintainers <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	mageia, marja11, nic
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	6dev1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	sddm	CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	journal

Description Herman Viaene 2016-03-13 10:09:18 CET

Description of problem:
The kdm login screen has all characters with about 1/3 of the character cut off from the upper right corner.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
6dev1 (21/3/2016)

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Graphics card ATI RS690M (Radeon Xpress 1200/1250/1270) on laptop Acer D620
2. After successfull boot, the kdm login screen appears (standard choice has been made for Xfce, but that one is not running yet at this instance).
3.All characters are cut off at the right top corner, making then hardly readable. The whole image flutters a little.
Once Xfce is running, the whole screen is clear and stable.

Herman Viaene 2016-03-13 10:09:41 CET

Keywords: (none) => 6dev1

Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2016-03-13 13:55:23 CET

kdm no longer exists, please attach journal.txt that is the result of, as root

   journalctl -b > journal.txt

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
CC: (none) => marja11

Comment 2 Herman Viaene 2016-03-14 10:24:29 CET

Created attachment 7570 [details]
journal

Comment 3 Nic Baxter 2016-03-18 03:43:52 CET

Your video card is quite old and might not have the resources to run sddm, the new display manager for KDE. What driver are you using radeon or the amd proprietary one? Switch to the proprietary one may improve your experience. The other option is to use a display manager with lower resource requirements such as LightDM.

CC: (none) => nic

Comment 4 Herman Viaene 2016-03-18 10:43:13 CET

The driver is MCC Hardware Configure Graphic is found under Vendor - ATI - Radeon HD4870 and earlier.
LightDM does not have this problem. And with LightDM starting, the issue of bug 17970 is also gone.
So OK for now.

Marja Van Waes 2016-03-28 22:02:00 CEST

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)
Assignee: bugsquad => mageia
Summary: All characters garbled in kdm with older ATI graphics card => All characters garbled in sddm with older ATI graphics card
Source RPM: (none) => sddm

Samuel Verschelde 2016-08-25 16:22:39 CEST

Assignee: mageia => kde

Comment 5 Nicolas Lécureuil 2017-03-16 21:30:59 CET

is it still valid on current cauldron ?

CC: (none) => mageia

Comment 6 Herman Viaene 2017-03-16 21:34:51 CET

That machine is RIP (rest in peace), and I haven't seen this effect on the replacement machine which has nvidia.

Comment 7 Rémi Verschelde 2017-03-17 09:31:31 CET

Closing as WORKSFORME then as it will be hard to fix without a way to reproduce. If someone can reproduce the issue again, feel free to reopen the bug report.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WORKSFORME