reassign 182524 xlibmesa3-gl retitle 182524 xlibmesa3-gl: glx displays only blankness merge 178242 182524 thanks On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 11:00:34PM -0800, jeff wrote: > Package: xserver-xfree86 > Version: 4.2.1-5 > Severity: normal > > Easiest test is to run glxgears and observe the blank window. I have made > no hardware changes recently but it's been a while since I tried any 3D > stuff. I have no easy way to verify that the 3D parts of the card are not > somehow physically broken although that seems extremly unlikely. > > Everything *thinks* things are OK, e.g. [...] > -- Package-specific info: > 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R100 QD [Radeon 64 DDR] This has already been filed a few times. In a nutshell, the Mesa 3D hardware acceleration routines don't play nicely with GCC 3.2. No fix is known, though XFree86 4.3.0 reportedly does *not* have this problem (it also contains a major new version of Mesa, which is likely a bigger change than can reasonably be backported to XFree86 4.2.1). In the meantime, software rendering should work. Alternatively, you can try downgrading the xlibmesa* packages to the versions in Debian testing (4.2.1-3). [debian-x: if you guys would help manage these duplicate reports and answer this FAQ, I sure would appreciate it. It doesn't seem to occur to anyone to look for existing reports against the xlibmesa packages, which tells me people don't really understand what those packages do.] -- G. Branden Robinson | "To be is to do" -- Plato Debian GNU/Linux | "To do is to be" -- Aristotle branden@debian.org | "Do be do be do" -- Sinatra http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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