[Mesa-dev] Print error message when switching to indirect rendering

[Jon TURNEY]

On 04/02/2012 01:14, Carl Worth wrote:
> I recently had a problem with a dri driver failing to load, (it turned
> out to be a case of the driver being built for 64-bit, but running a
> 32-bit application).
> 
> At the time, mesa switched over to indirect rendering without me
> realizing it at all. This left me quite confused. Finally, a kind
> friend pointed me to LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose and I was able to diagnose
> the problem.
> 
> I think mesa could have been that friend first. Here's a patch series
> to introduce a new CriticalErrorMessageF macro which will print a
> message even if LIBGL_DEBUG is unset, (but, like ErrorMessageF, will
> still silence the message if LIBGL_DEBUG is set to quiet).
> 
> Then, the error messages regarding switching to indirect and
> software-direct rendering are moved from ErrorMessageF to
> CriticalErrorMessageF.
> 
> I think this makes mesa a bit kinder when things go wrong, without
> spewing excessive noise in common cases. Any diagreement? Are their
> other obvious candidates for CriticalErrorMessageF?

It looks like these error messages will always be emitted when software-direct
and indirect are the only paths available (e.g. when ./configured with
--with-dri-drivers=swrast or --disable-driglx-direct).