Bug 30918

Summary: new Mesa update breaks 3D on Ubuntu 10.10
Product: Mesa Reporter: hansioux
Component: Mesa coreAssignee: mesa-dev
Status: RESOLVED NOTOURBUG QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium CC: bugzi11.fdo.tormod
Version: git   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
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Description hansioux 2010-10-15 22:57:29 UTC
Hi,

I have an older ATi card, 

VGA compatible controller		: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

The 3D support from X11 was working fine since Ubuntu 8.10.

since a week after upgrading to Ubuntu 10.10, a new update broke the 3D support.  Now i can't get any kind of 3D going.

My driver is 

-Display-
Resolution		: 1680x1050 pixels
Vendor		: The X.Org Foundation
Version		: 1.9.0.901
-Monitors-
Monitor 0		: 1680x1050 pixels

-OpenGL-
Vendor		: X.Org R300 Project
Renderer		: Gallium 0.4 on RV370
Version		: 2.1 Mesa 7.10-devel
Direct Rendering		: Yes

I am a mainstream user, and I don't really know if the bug is caused by Mesa, but I have exhausted my options.  I have another computer with a
newer nVidia GPU that had the same problem after an upgrade.  It was fixed with a reinstall and avoiding xorg updates.
Comment 1 Tom Stellard 2010-10-15 23:21:21 UTC
Could you be more specific about what is wrong with your system?
Comment 2 hansioux 2010-10-17 07:56:03 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> Could you be more specific about what is wrong with your system?


The "close minimize maximize" bar is missing on all windows.  After manually switching to some other drivers the bar returned but compiz still can not be started.

Compiz can not be started.  If i try, it will say it's looking for drivers.  After few mode switches into the driver that makes the windows bar disappear, it will say Desktop Effects can not be enabled.

3D graphics such as screen savers and the 3D glxgears test from Systems->Administration->System Testings would start, but the whole system hangs up after 30 seconds (for any 3D graphics).

So i have to run my machine without top window bar, without compiz and without screensavers.

If i shut down glxgears before the systems hangs up, the in system report, this is what is said about my compiz abilities.

Compiz_check	PASSED	
Gathering information about your system... 
Distribution: Ubuntu 10.10 
Desktop environment: GNOME 
Graphics chip: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)] 
Driver in use: radeon Rendering method: AIGLX  (i switched to this to get my windows bar back)
Checking if it's possible to run Compiz on your system... 
Checking for texture_from_pixmap... [ OK ] 
Checking for non power of two support... [ OK ] 
Checking for composite extension... [ OK ] 
Checking for FBConfig... [ OK ] 
Checking for hardware/setup problems... [ OK ]
Comment 3 Tormod Volden 2010-10-17 11:22:28 UTC
Ubuntu 10.10 only ships with the classic driver, but you are using the gallium driver... A "classic" example of using the xorg-edgers PPA without reading its instructions maybe?
Comment 4 hansioux 2010-10-17 17:58:48 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> Ubuntu 10.10 only ships with the classic driver, but you are using the gallium
> driver... A "classic" example of using the xorg-edgers PPA without reading its
> instructions maybe?

actually i didn't begin using the x-org-edgers PPA until it happened.  that's what's fixed my Windows Title bars.
Comment 5 hansioux 2010-10-17 18:02:05 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> Ubuntu 10.10 only ships with the classic driver, but you are using the gallium
> driver... A "classic" example of using the xorg-edgers PPA without reading its
> instructions maybe?

By the way, same thing has happened to my machine with nVidia, which wasn't running the xorg-edgers PPA at all.  And on the OMG!Uuntu forum, other people have confirmed that this has happened to them.
Comment 6 Tormod Volden 2010-10-18 06:47:35 UTC
Since this can be a Ubuntu specific issue, I'd suggest you file a bug on the Ubuntu bug tracker on this (use "ubuntu-bug mesa"). Then we can take it back here once the basic bug triaging is done.
Comment 7 Marek Olšák 2011-03-02 09:28:46 UTC
This seems to be a Ubuntu-specific issue with their xorg-edgers PPA, not our bug.

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