Bug#537732: libgl1-mesa-dri: screen goes black when running glxgears
On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 02:08 +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote:
>
> Michel Dänzer wrote, on 2009-07-21 01:31:
> > 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?
>
> Only the window used by glxgears and the system tray icon for hplip is
> black. All of the rest of the screen is visible.
Okay, so what I think happens is that the video card's gamma ramp gets
set to all black somehow. This could be a bug in the window manager, the
X driver or the X server. Do you have the possibility of trying older
version of any of these?
BTW, can you provide the glxinfo output I asked for?
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