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

[Michel Dänzer]

On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 11:49 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 09:13 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> I've tried to use libdrm from dri cvs, it doesnt change anything.

libdrm isn't the problem, the DRM itself (the kernel module radeon.ko)
is.


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