Bug#537732: libgl1-mesa-dri: screen goes black when running glxgears
On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 23:48 +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote:
> Package: libgl1-mesa-dri
> Version: 7.5-1
> Severity: normal
>
>
> When I tried to run glxgears, I received a black screen with i-beam cursor.
> I was able to switch vt's and kill glxgears, which restored the view to
> vt7.
While the screen is black, are screenshots you take black as well?
> I asked in #radeon on freenode about a workaround and was told:
>
> revert # bad: [25b492b976632269dfa3de164545d50a53c090ce]
> GLX/DRI1: Mark GLX visuals with depth != screen depth non-conformant.
As discussed on IRC, that commit doesn't cause the problem. The depth 32
visual traditionally always had the caveat until recent xserver, and
this bug was apparently just masked while that was missing.
Please provide the full output of glxinfo when the problem happens.
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