Bug#370814: same problem

[Michel Dänzer]

tags 370814 upstream fixed-upstream
kthxbye

On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 12:15 -0400, Sean Proctor wrote:
> 
> I'm having the same problem, which seems to have been resolved by
> using the framebuffer. Before trying that, I tried manually setting
> the amount of video ram on the card (read somewhere that that might
> help). I thought the card had 32mb, and put that in. At that point,
> opengl apps would run, but things would kind of appear randomly on the
> screen. I realized I only had 16mb of video ram. It's weird to me that
> apps weren't crashing when I put the wrong amount in, but were
> crashing when I put the right amount in. 

Not really weird at all; when you made the X r128 driver believe there
was more video RAM than there actually is, it thought there was enough
to store textures.

> Anyway, switching to use the framebuffer device stopped the crashing. 
> 
> Is there anything I can do to figure out where the problem is stemming
> from?

No need, really, this is a well known and understood problem. Does it
still happen with current libgl1-mesa-dri in sid? I fixed this upstream
a while ago, but maybe it was after the current snapshot.


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