[Bug 385077] Re: New frames come up black in Jaunty

[Chris Halse Rogers]

On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 10:23 +0000, Russel Winder wrote:
> I think I disagree that it is not a problem in Compiz.  Even if the
> fundamental problem is in something being relied on (in this case the
> NVIDIA drivers), Compiz should be checking for the problem and dealing
> with it with the user in a way that makes sense to the user.  The
> current behaviour of simply putting up a black screen is not user-
> friendly.

I'm not sure if it's actually possible to detect this error.  Maybe it
is.  But even if it can be, pretty much the best Compiz could do in this
case would be to refuse to create new windows.

> I think I also disagree with the problem being "largely fixed".  I have
> the 180 drivers installed and activated and I get the problem with
> Epiphany and Emacs quite regularly.
> 
Hm.  That's news to me, but I haven't been following the bug
particularly closely; my nvidia card has always had too much vram to
really manifest the problem.  The changelog for the 180 series drivers
certainly included "fixes for GL_EXT_texture_from_pixmap in low-memory
situations", which is the problem which causes the anomalous compiz
behaviour.

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New frames come up black in Jaunty
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