Bug#369805: OpenGL applications don't work anymore with mesa 6.5cvs and r300 (ppc ?)

[Michel Dänzer]

On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 19:42 -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 02:34:24PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> 
>  > I own a powerbook g4 running debian unstable, and wanted to try mesa
>  > 6.5 to see if it corrected some problems I have (for example in
>  > quake3) with mesa 6.4.
>  > 
>  > Now, this is indeed an experimental+cvs version, but I wanted to
>  > report this bug. When I try a glxgears or whatever GL game, i get a:
>  > 
>  > drmRadeonCmdBuffer: -22 (exiting)
>  > 
>  > and the application stop.
> 
>  My guess is that the radeon driver in the X server doesn't work with
>  the DRI driver in Mesa 6.5.

It's more likely the radeon DRM being too old for that version of the
r300 driver. Try the DRM from DRI CVS. The r300 driver is still
considered too experimental for the developers to bother putting in
backwards compatibility measures/checks.


>  > OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R300 20040924 AGP 4x TCL
>  > OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 6.5.1
> 
>  Does that mean "mesa from September 24th, 2004"?

No, it means the r300 driver's date string was last updated then.


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