Bug#389153: xserver-xorg: xorg 7.1 crashes/hangs with certain applications

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 13:47 +0200, Torsten Wolf wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg
> Version: 1:7.1.0-1
> Severity: important
> 
> 
> Hi!
> 
> After upgrading from xorg 7.0 -> 7.1 the xserver crashes when working
> with tecplot (commercial data visualisation package; OpenGL, not
> included in Debian). The server crashes when moving, resizing or
> changing the content of the main window. When using the fglrx driver 
> (Radeon 9500), the session is terminated and the graphical login screen
> is displayed. The following backtrace is added to the xorg logfile:
> 
> ----------
> Backtrace:
> 0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x84) [0x80c4334]
> 1: [0xffffe420]
> 2: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so(_mesa_resize_framebuffer+0x135) [0xa7a3e135]
> 3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so(xmesa_resize_buffers+0x4d) [0xa7b6efbd]
> 4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so(XMesaResizeBuffers+0x64) [0xa7b6aec4]

This is probably really a bug in mesa-swx11-source and should be fixed
in the Mesa 6.5.1 release, which should be packaged for Debian 'soon'.

You probably really want to use direct rendering though?


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