[Spice-devel] Regression in xf86-video-qxl

[Søren Sandmann]

Jeremy White <jwhite at codeweavers.com> writes:

> The following commit:
>
> commit 2fecf3a171e64ca0dad5653ed740409dc5af2edf
> Author:     Søren Sandmann <ssp at redhat.com>
> AuthorDate: Tue Dec 20 09:01:17 2011 -0500
> Commit:     Søren Sandmann Pedersen <ssp at redhat.com>
> CommitDate: Wed Sep 5 18:17:21 2012 -0400
>
>     Enable 8 bit pixmaps.
>
>     a8 surfaces are now supported with the 8BIT_A format in spice, so we
>     can have support 8 bit pixmaps.
>
> Causes Xspice to crash with the following error:
>
> (bin/Xorg:5125): SpiceWorker-CRITICAL **:
> red_worker.c:5467:lz_usr_error: stride != width*bytes_per_pixel (rgb) 8 5 1
>
> When using fluxbox 1.3.2.  I didn't readily find a crash with metacity
> or any other application pattern, but it does suggest a real bug.
>
> Any idea what could be causing that?

A possibility is that you are hitting a bug fixed by
0c1b6de4ad1b3e9d6da50979bb259f0acdc2fd2f in spice-common.

The Render and a8 code in xf86-video-qxl still needs to be made
backwards compatible pending some changes to qemu.


Soren