[ubuntu-x] Fatal server error: Couldn't bind memory for BO front buffer

[Bryce Harrington]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 01:57:50PM +0100, Tormod Volden wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 5:59 AM, shirish <shirishag75 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >  Bryce on the upstream report jim.gordon of intel said the following
> >
> > "Eric says this error appears if you've got a memory allocation setup that
> > doesn't fit in your apperture, and DRI2 will likely fix it."
> >
> > From what I know, as of right now DRI2 is disabled as per Tormod's forum post
> > http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6330401&postcount=7
> >
> > Would need xserver 1.6 as well as a newer version of intel driver from
> > his perspective.
> >
> > Please lemme know what you think would be a good way of resolving the issue.
> 
> I have uploaded xserver 1.6 beta and intel 2.6 alpha to the
> xorg-edgers PPA so you can try it out there to see if DRI2 will help.
> You will need intel 2.6.x for DRI2, unless Timo will do heavy
> backporting to the 2.5.x version...
> 
> Tormod

Hi Tormod, thanks for all the backporting work!

Would you be able to provide backported -intel 2.5 (and/or a 2.5-git*)
for hardy and intrepid?

One bug-work thing I have planned is to bulk-mail -intel bug reporters
once Alpha-2 is out, and request they re-test.  Obviously they would be
able to test against a jaunty live-cd, but I'd also like to give them
the option of installing a backport of the current 2.5 driver for users
that would like to test it on an existing intrepid or hardy install.

The new libdrm makes it a bit tricky to provide the backports, but I was
thinking since you already have them in the Edgers PPA, it might be a
good place for providing these driver backports too?

Based on prior experience with bulk-mail with retesting for -ati, we
were able to get a bunch of bugs resolved.  I've got the scripts to send
the bug mail, so just need the packages for folks to test.

Bryce

P.S. we could do the same again for -ati; what do you think?