Bug#537732: libgl1-mesa-dri: screen goes black when running glxgears

[Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>]

Michel Dänzer wrote, on 2009-07-21 02:15:
> 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?

Short of getting them from snapshot.debian.net (which appears 
unreachable at this time), I can try:

xserver-xorg 1:7.3+19

xserver-xorg-video-radeon 1:6.9.0-1+lenny4

kwin 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-6

> BTW, can you provide the glxinfo output I asked for?

It was sent in an earlier message and reached 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=537732 alright.

Regards,

Arthur.