How to revert back glx version from 1.4 to 1.2

Adam Jackson ajax at nwnk.net
Mon Aug 9 13:54:16 PDT 2010


On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 12:42 -0700, Ratin wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Adam Jackson <ajax at nwnk.net> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 00:44 -0700, Ratin wrote:
> >> Hi its been known to many that Xorg versions supporting glx version
> >> 1.4 introduced some memory leak.
> >
> > I don't see any bugs about that in bugzilla.  Do you have a testcase or
> > is this just tribal knowledge?
> >
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/26/ubuntu_xserver_memory_leak_bug/
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1478329
> http://numberedhumanindustries.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/ubuntu-10-04-memory-leak-issue-not-redhats-nor-fedoras-fault/
> http://us.generation-nt.com/bug-559408-xserver-xorg-core-x-server-memory-leak-help-168906011.html

So it's a bug that's already been fixed, and that doesn't affect you
since nvidia's glx support doesn't use that code at all.

- ajax
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