Bug#628907: pu: package mesa/7.7.1-5
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 21:32:33 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 12:31 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > I'm pondering a mesa update to fix a silly issue with dri2: when a
> > client is not local, direct rendering is not possible so the X server
> > returns a BadRequest error for all dri2 requests (except for
> > QueryVersion). mesa then crashes instead of falling back to software
> > rendering. Tested on an ltsp client running squeeze. I assume you'll
> > want this fixed in sid first, so I won't upload until then anyway.
>
> It looks like the versions of mesa currently in testing / unstable and
> experimental already contain a DRI2Error() function, although it handles
> a slightly different set of error codes. Is that simply an artefact of
> the different upstream versions, or does your proposed fix still need
> applying to unstable?
>
DRI2Error in sid/testing (and upstream, sigh) still need to get fixed to
ignore BadRequest from DRI2Connect. The fix there looks like
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-xorg/lib/mesa.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/117_handle_dri2connect_errors_when_indirect.diff;h=acd65a9ad90c734c026a2108e8829f194187bd1c;hb=ubuntu
Cheers,
Julien
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