Mesa: texture_from_pixmap outputs white patch

Michel Dänzer michel at tungstengraphics.com
Mon Jul 21 10:36:48 PDT 2008


On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 10:23 -0700, Mohan Parthasarathy wrote:
>  
>         
>         >
>         >         Sounds like the X server crashed, if this is
>         reproducible it
>         >         would be
>         >         good to track it down
>         >
>         > This can be reproduced by just running texture_from_pixmap
>         in a tight
>         > loop. At least i can reproduce it.
>         
>         
>         Good, can you get a gdb backtrace from the X server crash?
>         
> 
> gdb method does not seem to work as the process exits and i have no
> trace in gdb. And after spending lot of time in settup up core dumps
> on my machine, i have not been successful in getting a core dump. I
> will try some more later today..

I usually attach gdb to the running X server process before reproducing
a crash.


>         > Also, with DRI2, what version of the linux kernel i should
>         be
>         > running ?
>         
>         
>         I'm not sure, but I don't think it has any direct requirement
>         on the
>         kernel version.
> Ok. I thought you needed TTM for this ...

Right, but that's not included in any kernel, you'll need a drm Git
snapshot.


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Libre software enthusiast         |          Debian, X and DRI developer




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