[Bug 11470] New: Starting a wine app causes Xorg to reprobe video outputs ( which is visually distracting for some types of displays)

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11470

Summary: Starting a wine app causes Xorg to reprobe video outputs
                    (which is visually distracting for some types of
                    displays)
           Product: Wine
           Version: 0.9.54.
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: winex11.drv
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

Reproduced in 0.9.54 but this has been a problem for me for a very long time.

OS is Ubuntu 7.10 i386
Hardware is an IBM ThinkPad T60 (intel graphics driver)

Starting virtually any wine app causes Xorg to reprobe it's outputs (proof is
in /var/log/Xorg.0.log), which on my laptop is the same as running "xrandr".
This results in the VGA signal being interrupted and my (main) external display
flashing uncontrollably.

This only happens in wine apps, and with the xrandr command (which is meant to
do it).

[Bug 11470] Starting a wine app causes Xorg to reprobe video outputs ( which is visually distracting for some types of displays)

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11470

Vitaliy Margolen  changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Vitaliy Margolen   2008-02-05 07:33:49 ---
That's exactly what Wine does as well - default configuration is XRandR and
Wine needs the list of all available screen resolutions. However I've never
seen this before on any of my hardware. Might be a deficiency in your display
driver. Or the setup.

Not sure what we can do about this. Leaning towards losing it as wontfix.

[Bug 11470] Starting a wine app causes Xorg to reprobe video outputs ( which is visually distracting for some types of displays)

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11470

--- Comment #2 from Daniel van Vugt   2008-02-07 22:43:08 ---
I'm actually glad wine is using xrandr, but the real question is: Why does it
do the probe 3-4 times when I start some wine apps, and again for every wine
app started after that? Surely the probe doesn't need to happen more than once.
Running "xrandr" only causes one probe but wine does many.

[Bug 11470] Starting a wine app causes Xorg to reprobe video outputs ( which is visually distracting for some types of displays)

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11470

--- Comment #3 from Daniel van Vugt   2008-02-09 10:50:21 ---
Suggestion: Perhaps change the Summary of this bug to "Wine probes xrandr too
many times, and repeatedly in some apps, causing screen flashing with some X11
drivers"

I think this is more reasonable. It's not uncommon for a video output to flash
once when probed. It's just a little too much if that probe is triggered
repeatedly (as wine does).

[Bug 11470] Starting a wine app causes Xorg to reprobe video outputs ( which is visually distracting for some types of displays)

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11470

--- Comment #4 from Lei Zhang   2008-02-11 19:43:23 ---
assuming it happens with notepad, can you run:

WINEDEBUG=+xrandr wine notepad

and attach the output?

I have not looked at the code closely, but let's see if we can reduce the
amount of flickering.

[Bug 11470] Starting a wine app causes Xorg to reprobe video outputs ( which is visually distracting for some types of displays)

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11470

jay  changed:

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--- Comment #5 from jay   2008-02-12 07:51:57 ---
(In reply to comment #4)
I can confirm this.
It's pretty irritating how often the screen blanks when I worrk with office for
example.

$ WINEDEBUG=+xrandr wine notepad
fixme:spoolsv:serv_main (0 (nil))
err:advapi:service_get_status service protocol error - failed to read pipe r =
0  count = 0!
trace:xrandr:X11DRV_XRandR_Init Found XRandR - major: 1, minor: 2
trace:xrandr:X11DRV_XRandR_Init XRandR: found 7 resolutions sizes
trace:xrandr:X11DRV_XRandR_Init - at 0: 1280x1024 (2 rates):  60,  75 Hz
trace:xrandr:X11DRV_XRandR_Init - at 1: 1152x864 (1 rates):  75 Hz
trace:xrandr:X11DRV_XRandR_Init - at 2: 1024x768 (3 rates):  75,  70,  60 Hz
trace:xrandr:X11DRV_XRandR_Init - at 3: 832x624 (1 rates):  75 Hz
trace:xrandr:X11DRV_XRandR_Init - at 4: 800x600 (3 rates):  72,  75,  60 Hz
trace:xrandr:X11DRV_XRandR_Init - at 5: 640x480 (3 rates):  75,  73,  60 Hz
trace:xrandr:X11DRV_XRandR_Init - at 6: 720x400 (1 rates):  70 Hz
trace:xrandr:X11DRV_XRandR_Init XRandR modes: count=14
trace:xrandr:X11DRV_XRandR_Init Available DD modes: count=42
trace:xrandr:X11DRV_XRandR_Init Enabling XRandR
trace:xrandr:X11DRV_XRandR_Init Found XRandR - major: 1, minor: 2
trace:xrandr:X11DRV_XRandR_Init XRandR: found 7 resolutions sizes
trace:xrandr:X11DRV_XRandR_Init - at 0: 1280x1024 (2 rates):  60,  75 Hz
trace:xrandr:X11DRV_XRandR_Init - at 1: 1152x864 (1 rates):  75 Hz
trace:xrandr:X11DRV_XRandR_Init - at 2: 1024x768 (3 rates):  75,  70,  60 Hz
trace:xrandr:X11DRV_XRandR_Init - at 3: 832x624 (1 rates):  75 Hz
trace:xrandr:X11DRV_XRandR_Init - at 4: 800x600 (3 rates):  72,  75,  60 Hz
trace:xrandr:X11DRV_XRandR_Init - at 5: 640x480 (3 rates):  75,  73,  60 Hz
trace:xrandr:X11DRV_XRandR_Init - at 6: 720x400 (1 rates):  70 Hz
trace:xrandr:X11DRV_XRandR_Init XRandR modes: count=14
trace:xrandr:X11DRV_XRandR_Init Available DD modes: count=42
trace:xrandr:X11DRV_XRandR_Init Enabling XRandR

Possibly to help you trace.
I don't have external monitor in xorg.conf . I'm using application urandr to
add  it, and I use clone setup 1024x768. 'Intel' driver (And compiz fusion).

[Bug 11470] Starting a wine app causes Xorg to reprobe video outputs ( which is visually distracting for some types of displays)

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11470

--- Comment #6 from Dmitry Timoshkov   2008-02-12 08:30:50 ---
Please do not PASTE logs and back traces, (attach them instead).

The log shows that Wine just queries resolution modes supported by a driver,
nothing more. It does it twice though, for notepad and explorer, but that's
perfectly fine.

If a simple query makes your screen flicker, that's a bug either in your
display driver, or perhaps a side effect of compiz.

Does the screen flicker when you run 'xrandr' in a terminal window?

[Bug 11470] Starting a wine app causes Xorg to reprobe video outputs ( which is visually distracting for some types of displays)

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11470

--- Comment #7 from jay   2008-02-13 02:48:53 ---
(In reply to comment #6)
sorry, next time I'll attach it.

You're right, xrandr is restarting the display. (executing xandr restarts
display once).
I'll follow the trail that way. 
Thanks.

[Bug 11470] Starting a wine app causes Xorg to reprobe video outputs ( which is visually distracting for some types of displays)

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11470

--- Comment #8 from jay   2008-02-13 03:00:21 ---
For anyone who comes here for a sollution:

It's an intel driver bug.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/1470...

workaround:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/1470...

Option "monitor-TV" "TV" # in the video device section, plus:

Section "Monitor"
       Identifier "TV"
       Option "Ignore" "True"
  EndSection

[Bug 11470] Starting a wine app causes Xorg to reprobe video outputs ( which is visually distracting for some types of displays)

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11470

Dmitry Timoshkov  changed:

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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |INVALID

--- Comment #9 from Dmitry Timoshkov   2008-02-13 04:27:09 ---
Then this bug is invalid.

[Bug 11470] Starting a wine app causes Xorg to reprobe video outputs ( which is visually distracting for some types of displays)

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11470

Dmitry Timoshkov  changed:

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--- Comment #10 from Dmitry Timoshkov   2008-02-13 04:27:22 ---
Closing.