You have been subscribed to a public bug: [Problem] Videos tear (show portions of two consecutive frames simultaneously) when KMS is used. In Karmic it did not do this because of video overlay, which is not yet available with KMS.
[Workarounds] a) Turn off kernel modesetting by using the radeon.modeset=0 option on the kernel boot line. or b) Use xvattr to set XV_BICUBIC to 0. Note that some IGPs are not powerful enough to support bicubic filtering so turning it off may help. [Original Report] Reproducing video with totem or mplayer does not go smoothly, consecutive frames are mixed. It looks as if that double buffering was not being use or the buffer swapping was not synchronized with video vertical sync. It happens both in full screen and in window mode. I didn't have this problem with Ubuntu 9.10. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Jan 29 12:17:36 2010 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 DkmsStatus: virtualbox-ose, 3.1.2, 2.6.32-12-generic, x86_64: installed virtualbox-ose, 3.1.2, 2.6.32-11-generic, x86_64: installed virtualbox-ose, 3.1.2, 2.6.32-10-generic, x86_64: installed InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20091209) MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP dx5150 SFF Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon 1:6.12.99+git20100126.e5933fd7-0ubuntu1 ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-12-generic root=UUID=564eb7dd-0d11-4482-b882-f3794a37eb34 ro quiet splash ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-12.16-generic RelatedPackageVersions: xserver-xorg 1:7.5+1ubuntu2 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.7-0ubuntu8 libdrm2 2.4.17-0ubuntu2 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.1-1ubuntu3 SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-ati Uname: Linux 2.6.32-12-generic x86_64 dmi.bios.date: 02/24/2006 dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD dmi.bios.version: 1.13 dmi.board.name: 09AC dmi.board.vendor: MSI dmi.chassis.asset.tag: CZC62933NH dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologies,LTD:bvr1.13:bd02/24/2006:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPdx5150SFF:pvr:rvnMSI:rn09AC:rvr:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct3:cvr: dmi.product.name: HP dx5150 SFF dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory system: distro: Ubuntu architecture: x86_64kernel: 2.6.32-12-generic [lspci] 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 [Radeon Xpress 200G Series] [1002:5954] Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:3009] ** Affects: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug lucid tearing videoplayback -- Video tearing with KMS (no video overlay available) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/514245 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs