Bug#770130: gnome-shell: Oh no! Something has gone wrong. (Fujitsu ST4121)
Control: severity 770130 important
On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 at 18:15:48 -0800, Eric Shattow wrote:
> Nov 18 17:57:51 boss kernel: [drm:i8xx_irq_handler] *ERROR* pipe A underrun
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> Nov 18 17:57:53 boss gnome-session[7213]: (gnome-shell:7314): Cogl-ERROR **: Failed to create texture 2d due to size/format constraints
After discussion with jcristau I'm downgrading this from serious to
important. It is clearly a bug, but it's a bug that as far as I can see
only manifests on hardware around 12 years old, which I think we have to
admit is no longer a primary target for Debian's default desktop.
Something other than GNOME 3 (XFCE? LXDE?) might be a better choice,
although I'm not sure how well hardware of that vintage will cope with
modern web browsers etc. either.
If there is ever a fix for this, I suspect it is most likely to take the
form of either gnome-shell or Mesa refusing to try to do GL rendering on
hardware that only supports power-of-two texture sizes, and either showing
an error or falling back to llvmpipe (software) rendering (which seems
unlikely to have reasonable performance on hardware of this age either).
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