761034 - [D2D] graphical Glitches on Menu Popups

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Graphics, defect)

Description

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

Attachment: Screenshot showing the Issue

See Screenshot. The Glitches flicker as you move the Mouse around the Popups' Surface.

Affected are Chrome and Content Popups like e.g. Firefox Button Menu, Bookmark Menu, <select>/<option> Popups.

Disabling D2D e.g. via gfx.direct2d.disabled;true helps.

Regression Windows:

* mozilla-inbound:
Last good nightly: 2012-04-15
First bad nightly: 2012-04-16

Pushlog: http://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/pushloghtml?fromchange=6f44748aa046&tochange=61088f8aa842

* central:
Last good nightly: 2012-04-16
First bad nightly: 2012-04-17

Pushlog: http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=fd06332733e5&tochange=c61e7c3a232a

=> likely http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/07f55ad76d8f (Bug 610713)
=> Firefox 14 and higher are affected.

I'm running a Lenovo Notebook with NVIDIA Optimus.

Adapter Description Intel(R) HD Graphics
Vendor ID8086
Device ID0046
Adapter RAM Unknown
Adapter Drivers igdumd64 igd10umd64 igdumdx32 igd10umd32
Driver Version 8.15.10.2622
Driver Date 1-10-2012

Adapter Description (GPU #2) NVIDIA GeForce 310M 
Vendor ID (GPU #2)10de
Device ID (GPU #2)0a70
Adapter RAM (GPU #2)512
Adapter Drivers (GPU #2) nvd3dumx,nvwgf2umx,nvwgf2umx nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um
Driver Version (GPU #2) 8.17.13.142
Driver Date (GPU #2) 5-15-2012

Direct2D Enabled true
DirectWrite Enabled true (6.1.7601.17789)
ClearType Parameters ClearType parameters not found
WebGL Renderer Blocked for your graphics card because of unresolved driver issues.
GPU Accelerated Windows 1/1 Direct3D 10
AzureBackend direct2d

Comment 1

[Bas Schouten (:bas.schouten)]

I'm surprised -not- accelerating causes issues here (as that's what that revision changed!)

Comment 2

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

We should back out the fix in bug 610713 since it didn't really fix anything for anyone as far as I can tell, and it seems to have caused this. Bas, do you agree?

Comment 3

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

Bas? :-)

FWIW, I verified my Guess in Comment 0 using HG Bisect against MC:

The first bad revision is:
changeset:   91743:07f55ad76d8f
user:        Robert O'Callahan <[e-mail]>
date:        Tue Apr 10 11:52:50 2012 +1200
summary:     Bug 610713. Disable acceleration in popup widgets to work around Windows/driver bugs. r=bas

The only potential Dupe filed since landing on MC would be Bug 764161, so I don't know if an Uplifting of a Backout to Aurora/Beta would be feasible/justifiable.

Comment 4

[Bas Schouten (:bas.schouten)]

I'm fine with backing out bug 610713.

Comment 5

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

Attachment: backout patch

Comment 6

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/ad006bd70b37

Comment 7

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

Comment on attachment 636079 [details] [diff] [review]
backout patch

Review of attachment 636079 [details] [diff] [review]:
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Simple backout.

Comment 8

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

Comment on attachment 636079 [details] [diff] [review]
backout patch

Review of attachment 636079 [details] [diff] [review]:
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Simple backout. The patch didn't help anything, and it caused this bug, so we should just back it out.

Comment 9

[Alex Keybl [:akeybl]]

Comment on attachment 636079 [details] [diff] [review]
backout patch

[Triage Comment]
Backout to a known state. Approved for branches.

Comment 10

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-aurora/rev/d2329f2b08da
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-beta/rev/8cb10eb889dc

Comment 11

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

This is now verified working against
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:16.0) Gecko/16.0 Firefox/16.0 ID:20120629030530
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120629 Firefox/15.0a2 ID:20120629042007
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0 ID:20120628060610