Bug#413054: Software Fallback with ctx->Line.SmoothFlag

[Alex Deucher]

On 3/1/07, Joachim Breitner <nomeata at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati
> Version: 1:6.6.3-2
> Severity: normal
> Tags: upstream
>
> Hi,
>
> it seems that the driver is not supporting something that causes it to
> turn off hardware acceleration. I assume this is an upstream issue, but
> I'd like it to be tracked here, if you don't mind.
>
> I'm observing it with google earth:
>
> $ googleearth
> libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x4b
> *********************************WARN_ONCE*********************************
> File r300_render.c function r300Fallback line 428
> Software fallback:ctx->Line.SmoothFlag
> ***************************************************************************
> ...
>
> I think it used to work around August with the versions in unstable,
> IIRC.
>

The r300 driver has never supported smooth lines.  No one has figured
out how to do them yet.  There was a patch floating around to disable
fallbacks for smooth lines, perhaps that what you were using.

Alex

> If this is not the ati driver, but the mesa package, then please excuse
> my mis-filing and re-assign the bug.
>
> Greetings and thanks,
> Joachim
>
> PS: My hardware is:
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M10 NT [FireGL Mobility T2] (rev 80)
> glxinfo says:
> OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R300 20060815 AGP 4x TCL
> OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 6.5.1
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 4.0
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.18.otto
> Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
>
> Versions of packages xserver-xorg-video-ati depends on:
> ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> ii  xserver-xorg-core           2:1.1.1-18   X.Org X server -- core server
>
> xserver-xorg-video-ati recommends no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
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