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unixdan22

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T430/T530 Intel HD integrated graphics artifacts

Hello,

I have graphic artifacts on ThinkPad T430 and T530 with integrated Intel HD 4000 GPU. Sometimes white dots appear all over the screen.

The artifacts appear more often, when there is intense rendering, for example on https://webglsamples.org/ .

The hardware was tested extensively (memtest) and looks alright. It seems to be an xorg driver issue.

I tried using the intel driver instead of the modesetting driver by creating the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf:

Section "Device"
  Identifier "Intel Graphics"
  Driver "intel"
EndSection

Now artifacts only appear on objects, but not on backgrounds.

How can I fix this problem?

Thank you in advance for any help!

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: T430/T530 Intel HD integrated graphics artifacts

Try

  Option "AccelMethod" "uxa"

But if GL rendering stimulates the problem the DDX driver is probably not involved. EDIT: no, wait, only Firefox v103 or newer will use hardware acceleration for that device.

Haswell CPUs need the intel-microcode package to avoid instability but I don't think that's relevant here.

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2022-08-15 16:48:10)

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unixdan22

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Re: T430/T530 Intel HD integrated graphics artifacts

Thank you for the fast reply!

With AccelMethod UXA and GLAMOR I get the same artifacts as with SNA: dots appearing on rendered 3d objects.

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Re: T430/T530 Intel HD integrated graphics artifacts

Compositor, perhaps? Which desktop is this?

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unixdan22

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Re: T430/T530 Intel HD integrated graphics artifacts

It is on XFCE.
Output of inxi -Fxz:

System:    Kernel: 5.18.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 
           Distro: Devuan GNU/Linux 4 (chimaera) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 2349U2B v: ThinkPad T430 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: LENOVO model: 2349U2B serial: <filter> UEFI [Legacy]: LENOVO v: G1ETB5WW (2.75 ) date: 03/05/2018 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 19.8 Wh condition: 21.3/56.2 Wh (38%) model: SANYO 45N1013 status: Charging 
CPU:       Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-3320M bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Ivy Bridge rev: 9 L2 cache: 3 MiB 
           flags: avx lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 20753 
           Speed: 1197 MHz min/max: 1200/3300 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1197 2: 1197 3: 1854 4: 2156 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 
           Device-2: Chicony thinkpad t430s camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus ID: 1-1.6:4 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1600x900~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 4000 (IVB GT2) v: 4.2 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus ID: 00:1b.0 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.18.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 
Network:   Device-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network vendor: Lenovo driver: e1000e v: kernel port: 6080 bus ID: 00:19.0 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: efa0 bus ID: 03:00.0 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Bluetooth: Device-1: Broadcom BCM20702 Bluetooth 4.0 [ThinkPad] type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus ID: 1-1.4:3 
           Report: ID: hci0 state: up running pscan bt-v: 2.1 lmp-v: 4.0 address: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 704.24 GiB used: 167.08 GiB (23.7%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 500GB size: 465.76 GiB 
           ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Samsung model: MZ7TD256HAFV-000L7 size: 238.47 GiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 191.19 GiB used: 167.08 GiB (87.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5 
Swap:      ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 32 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/sda6 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 65535 fan-1: 0 fan-2: 
Info:      Processes: 223 Uptime: 7m Memory: 7.48 GiB used: 2.16 GiB (28.8%) Init: SysVinit runlevel: 2 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 
           Packages: 2542 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 inxi: 3.3.01

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: T430/T530 Intel HD integrated graphics artifacts

I would try switching the compositor off. They can cause all sorts of weird issues.

Otherwise try the newer linux-image-amd64 package from the beowulf-backports repository.

Reference: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=263863

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unixdan22

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Re: T430/T530 Intel HD integrated graphics artifacts

Thank you for the suggestion!

Disabling the compositor did improve the situation.

But there is still the same issue as with the Intel driver: dots appearing on 3d objects. (See screenshots of the book animation below)

Installing a newer kernel from stable-backports did not change anything.

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Re: T430/T530 Intel HD integrated graphics artifacts

Well I'm stumped then. Sorry.

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