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KDE Shutdown when OGL/SDL App window is moved
Ricardo Cruz
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Hello,

Failsafe is still X, it just means "no window manager". You can't move the
windows; that's why it doesn't crash. ;)

Anyway, at least for me, if all I wanted OpenGL for was to play games, that
crash wouldn't be such a big problem because I'd just start all games in
fullscreen mode (it is a common practice for games to have command line flags
to set fullscreen and set a resolution).

Unfortunately, I can't even garante you that a X.org update will fix the
problem. Though, I am pretty positive it will, because I am pretty sure it is
a driver issue, and such a crash wouldn't pass unnoticied to anyone with such
a videocard (so there should be plenty bug reports already).

Happy new year btw,

Ricardo

Em S?bado, 31 de Dezembro de 2005 23:37, o Steve Damm escreveu:
Quote:

Thanks for your advice Riacardo. I am going to try disabling those
features first.

I know I'm using X 6.9.X but before I upgrade to X 7.0 which may be
tough I'd like to point out that all these apps I've tested work fine in
failsafe mode.
Does failsafe use X?

I also tried it in IceWM, it crashes like KDE in Ice so the only way I
could get it to work 100% proper was in failsafe.

Thanks,
Halsafar

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KDE Shutdown when OGL/SDL App window is moved
Steve Damm
Guest

Ricardo Cruz wrote:

Quote:
Hello,

Failsafe is still X, it just means "no window manager". You can't move the
windows; that's why it doesn't crash. ;)

Anyway, at least for me, if all I wanted OpenGL for was to play games, that
crash wouldn't be such a big problem because I'd just start all games in
fullscreen mode (it is a common practice for games to have command line flags
to set fullscreen and set a resolution).

Unfortunately, I can't even garante you that a X.org update will fix the
problem. Though, I am pretty positive it will, because I am pretty sure it is
a driver issue, and such a crash wouldn't pass unnoticied to anyone with such
a videocard (so there should be plenty bug reports already).

Happy new year btw,

Ricardo

Em S?bado, 31 de Dezembro de 2005 23:37, o Steve Damm escreveu:


Quote:
Thanks for your advice Riacardo. I am going to try disabling those
features first.

I know I'm using X 6.9.X but before I upgrade to X 7.0 which may be
tough I'd like to point out that all these apps I've tested work fine in
failsafe mode.
Does failsafe use X?

I also tried it in IceWM, it crashes like KDE in Ice so the only way I
could get it to work 100% proper was in failsafe.

Thanks,
Halsafar



You may not be able to move the window in failsafe but you can switch to
fullscreen in failsafe and it works. A switch to fullscreen in KDE or
any other window manager like IceWM crashes. I disabled some of the
window behaviours and it improved the problem a bit. I can resize any
openGL window like glxgears, maximize it even, minimize all in KDE and
it works. However doing something as simple as moving the window by
clicking and holding the titlebar or a switch to fullscreen and the app
crashes hard causing the display to terminate pushing my session to close.

I'd like add that once this problem occurs once, if I do not FULLY
restart the computer the graphic engine of X seems to get a little
messed. If I cause this crash being discussed then log back in and try
running glxgears my FPS goes from 600+ before crash to 3-5fps after
crash. I cannot switch to any other terminals (Ctrl+Alt+1-6), if I do
all I see is a mess of colors. During the shutdown process the screen
just goes into funky colors. It seems that if I cause this error X
becomes very unhappy with graphics.

I am a comp sci major and Im pushing in game development. Having a
laptop which cannot run OGL in Linux (my fav programming environment)
will cause me some problem. I have no need to play games in Linux that
is what Windows OS is for.


Well I am patiently waiting for this X update.

Where should I report this bug? X.ORG?

Thanks,
Halsafar
KDE Shutdown when OGL/SDL App window is moved
Ricardo Cruz
Guest

Okay, but still... Window manager is envolved when you toggle between window
and full screen. It has to be some instruction that window managers call that
is triggering the crash. Anyway, the one to blame is the driver. Really, if
it happens in so different window manager as kwin and metacity, it got to be
the driver.

To report bugs, just go to the X.org website, that is, well, X.org . Smile You
might want to submit your bug to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/ , but I'd
first advice you to share it in a mailing list
(http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/). Not sure which one would be the most
appropriate... Anyway, I'm pretty sure it is fixed in this new major release.
It just is a too big bug to pass through.

Cheers,
Ricardo

Em Domingo, 1 de Janeiro de 2006 19:03, o Steve Damm escreveu:
Quote:

You may not be able to move the window in failsafe but you can switch to
fullscreen in failsafe and it works. A switch to fullscreen in KDE or
any other window manager like IceWM crashes. I disabled some of the
window behaviours and it improved the problem a bit. I can resize any
openGL window like glxgears, maximize it even, minimize all in KDE and
it works. However doing something as simple as moving the window by
clicking and holding the titlebar or a switch to fullscreen and the app
crashes hard causing the display to terminate pushing my session to close.

I'd like add that once this problem occurs once, if I do not FULLY
restart the computer the graphic engine of X seems to get a little
messed. If I cause this crash being discussed then log back in and try
running glxgears my FPS goes from 600+ before crash to 3-5fps after
crash. I cannot switch to any other terminals (Ctrl+Alt+1-6), if I do
all I see is a mess of colors. During the shutdown process the screen
just goes into funky colors. It seems that if I cause this error X
becomes very unhappy with graphics.

I am a comp sci major and Im pushing in game development. Having a
laptop which cannot run OGL in Linux (my fav programming environment)
will cause me some problem. I have no need to play games in Linux that
is what Windows OS is for.


Well I am patiently waiting for this X update.

Where should I report this bug? X.ORG?

Thanks,
Halsafar

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