Xorg 1.1.1 + Mesa 6.5.2 = White screens with i810 driver and beryl/compiz

[Colin Guthrie]

Kamran Riaz Khan wrote:
> S.Çağlar Onur wrote:
>> I'm sure xorg-server-7.2_rc3 + Mesa-6.5.2 works correctly with these
>> patches, currently Pardus 2007 uses these and we have lots of beryl
>> users. So if issues still exists for you most probably your beryl
>> links against wrong libGL, so check your setup.
> 
> Here are the steps that I just did:
> - Cloned git HEAD of mesa. Compiled and installed the libraries in the
> following two locations:
>     /usr/lib64
>     /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/dri
> - Cloned git HEAD of xserver
> - Applied patches:
>     xorg-server-1.1.99.901-GetDrawableAttributes.patch
>     xorg-server-1.1.99.901-glXDRIbindTexImage-target.patch
> - Compiled beryl 0.1.4 and installed.
> - ldd /usr/bin/beryl | grep GL yields:
>     libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libGL.so.1 (0x00002b44932b9000)
> 
> - Started beryl. The screen still stays white :-( . The only difference
> is that now the cube tends to flicker _wildly_ when I rotate it.

I think you should start to kick up a fuss on:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9456


One of the Mesa devs will have to start looking at some point.....

Col.