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Re: Fixed Mate desktop spamming xorg logs - now video jagged

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  Re: Fixed Mate desktop spamming xorg logs - now video jagged Johann Klammer <klammerj@a1.net> - 2022-04-26 17:40 +0200

#247576 — Re: Fixed Mate desktop spamming xorg logs - now video jagged

On 04/22/2022 01:50 AM, Jeremy Ardley wrote:
> I'm using Mate 1.20. I noticed a continual flood in my /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> 
> modeset(0): Failed to get GBM bo for flip to new front.
> 
> I tracked down the error at
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1645553
> 
> I used more or less the procedure documented by pkoz 2018-12-28 08:17:40 UTC and the spamming stopped.
> 
> MATE menu>System>Preferences>Look and Feel>Windows>General tab>Enable software compositing window manager checkbox.
> 
> However, some artefacts developed such as black borders on menu panels. Not so much a problem.
> 
> The big problem now is video playing has obvious tearing of the image.
> 
> My video card is
> 
> 09:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Caicos PRO [Radeon HD 7450]
> 
> and my system
> 
> PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)"
> NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
> VERSION_ID="11"
> 
> Any suggestions on how to get clean video again?
> 
look in your xorg.conf to see what module gets loaded.
then read the manpage and randomly disable/enable settings 
until something works.

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