Upgrade Mesa to latest Mesa-CVS?

Kristian Høgsberg krh at redhat.com
Mon Aug 7 16:09:03 UTC 2006


David Nielsen wrote:
> man, 07 08 2006 kl. 10:56 -0400, skrev Kristian Høgsberg:
>> David Nielsen wrote:
>>> lør, 05 08 2006 kl. 09:47 +0200, skrev Hans de Goede:
>>>> David Nielsen wrote:
>>>>> lør, 05 08 2006 kl. 06:32 +0200, skrev Hans de Goede:
>>>>>> Install libXi-devel and try again.
>>>>> Yep, that did indeed solve the problem, might I suggest BR'ing it?
>>>>>
>>>> And that it has been build, does it work for you? Any improvements /
>>>> regressions?
>>> It seems about the same on my r300, that is a good thing though, it's
>>> stable enough to run Compiz on a day to day basis and everything is
>>> generally peachy.
>>>
>>> I still a few glitzes when displaying menus in quick succesion but
>>> that's about the only thing that doesn't work as expected I can think of
>>> (aside the known issues like lack of xv support).
>> This is not a mesa glitch, though, it's a known compiz problem.
> 
> Things took a bad turn somewhere, now using compiz the entire system
> hangs if I look at it wrong. Even after I downgraded Mesa.. very scary
> indeed.
> 
> I have no idea what causes this and it's not like I can grab a backtrace
> easily as it locks up the machine in the really bad cases or locks up X
> in the mild cases.. I have no idea what caused it but I have a feeling I
> was involved.

The r300 driver in 6.5 has a bad memory leak, which will screw up your system 
if you run compiz (or any GL app) a few times in indirect mode.  This is fixed 
in mesa cvs, though, so you shouldn't see that there.

Kristian




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