Bug#537732: libgl1-mesa-dri: screen goes black when running glxgears
Arthur Marsh wrote:
>
>
> Michel Dänzer wrote, on 2009-07-21 02:15:
>> On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 02:08 +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote:
>>> Michel Dänzer wrote, on 2009-07-21 01:31:
>>>> On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 23:48 +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote:
>>>>> Package: libgl1-mesa-dri
>>>>> Version: 7.5-1
>>>>> Severity: normal
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> When I tried to run glxgears, I received a black screen with
>>>>> i-beam cursor.
>>>>> I was able to switch vt's and kill glxgears, which restored the
>>>>> view to
>>>>> vt7.
>>>> While the screen is black, are screenshots you take black as well?
>>> Only the window used by glxgears and the system tray icon for hplip
>>> is black. All of the rest of the screen is visible.
>>
>> Okay, so what I think happens is that the video card's gamma ramp gets
>> set to all black somehow. This could be a bug in the window manager, the
>> X driver or the X server. Do you have the possibility of trying older
>> version of any of these?
>
> Short of getting them from snapshot.debian.net (which appears
> unreachable at this time), I can try:
>
> xserver-xorg 1:7.3+19
downgrading xserver-xorg-core to previous 1.6 or 1.5.99 snapshot might
be better.
> xserver-xorg-video-radeon 1:6.9.0-1+lenny4
There are some intermediate radeon drivers in
http://people.debian.org/~bgoglin/rebuilds/Xserver1.6/
Brice
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