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List:       kwin
Subject:    Re: kwin_composite on ati (xorg 7.1)
From:       Lubos Lunak <l.lunak () suse ! cz>
Date:       2006-11-21 15:21:08
Message-ID: 200611211621.08857.l.lunak () suse ! cz
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On Tuesday 21 November 2006 09:05, Michael Thaler wrote:
> > Due to a typo in the code it does not select TFP mode with Mesa libGL, it
> > uses the SHM mode for you. I've fixed that already, you can try updating,
> > then it may either work faster or it may not work at all (in which case
> > you'll have to force SHM explicitly in kwinrc as I said in the svn commit
>
> log).
>
> OK, I just checked it out and compiled it. It seems to work, but I get
> artifacts and once I move a window, the screen gets black and X (or maybe
> even Linux?) crashes.
>
> This is with the open source r300 drivers and AIGLX enabled.

 The radeon drivers reportedly don't support r300 that well yet. You'll have 
to force the SHM mode I guess.

> > > And I also get this error message:
> > >
> > > *********************************WARN_ONCE*****************************
> > >**** File radeon_mm.c function radeon_mm_alloc line 216
> > > Ran out of GART memory!
> > > Please consider adjusting GARTSize option.
> > > ***********************************************************************
> > >**** Try R300_SPAN_DISABLE_LOCKING env var if this hangs.
> >
> > I know there are still some minor painting problems and the crash on
> > exit. Somewhen somebody fixes it :).
>
> I am more concerned the "Ran out of GART memory" warning. I never saw this
> before. It certainly does not happen with compiz or beryl or other OpenGL
> apps.

 I have no idea what GART is :). Maybe there's a leak somewhere, there's still 
enough to clean up and so.

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