[Intel-gfx] kwin compositing broken with 2.8.0 (and git)

[Jin, Gordon]

Thomas Fjellstrom wrote on Thursday, July 23, 2009 6:48 AM:
> Ever since about a week ago or possibly two, the intel gfx driver on
> my GM45 (4500MHD  gpu) has been either unstable with compositing, or
> just fails to initialize composting altogether.
> 
> I had been running the git driver for a little while to get working
> KMS, and about the same time the DRI2 changes hit, compositing in
> kwin4 started to get rather unstable, (screen freezes) and now since
> a few days ago, compositing won't initialize at all, and glxgears
> seems to run at a low low 300fps. glxinfo does say direct rendering
> is enabled. 
> 
> I'll probably post a bug on this soon following the "how to report a
> bug" doc, but I just thought I'd ask here if anyone knows what might
> be the cause, or if its fixed now? (I last checked git a couple days
> ago). 

There's already a similar bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22842.
I can't reproduce it. If you could bisect the regression commit that'll be a big help.

Thanks
Gordon