[Mesa-dev] KWin and Mesa

[Ian Pilcher]

On 04/22/2011 11:11 PM, Mario Kleiner wrote:
> At least the visual corruption with compositing that is described in
> these reports matches this bug very well:
> 
> <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35452>
> 
> The bug is in the DRI2 implementation of the x-server and should affect
> any compositor when kms page flipping is enabled. x-servers 1.8, 1.9,
> (afaik) 1.10 x-server's would be affected. If you follow this thread
> <http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2011-March/020716.html> it
> points to a proposed patch by Michel Daenzer, and a refined version by
> Keith Packard. I don't know if a version has landed in master already,
> but testing it would help to get it there and maybe to get it merged to
> 1.9 and 1.10.

Results of initial testing are positive.  Thank you!

Rather disappointing to read the discussion on xorg-devel.  (Talk about
"making the perfect the enemy of the good!")  I have posted my results
there; perhaps that will get things moving.

Thanks!

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Ian Pilcher                                         arequipeno at gmail.com
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