[Dri-users] Re: [Dri-devel] Fresh Snapshots and Blender

[<sm...@wa...>]

On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 15:51:25 -0700
Jason Cook <ja...@ds...> wrote:

> Sorry for the late post to this topic, but is anyone still
> experiencing problems with this? I just recalled that I had the same
> problem about a year ago, before blender was open-sourced. I found a
> possible workaround for the problem for that old dynamic binary,
> perhaps it might work with the latest version. Try rendering
> everything in the same window as the 3d view. DO NOT render anything
> in a separate pop-up window. I don't remamber how to configure blender
> to do this, but it was a simple menu setting. I had no lockups after
> that.
> 
> I haven't had time to try the new blender (or use the old one) but 
> hopfully this will help you until the problem is actually fixed. I 
> remember early versions of QERadiant having similar lockup problems,
> but they went away with a new release and updated drivers.

Well I can say for sure that I was using multiple windows.

So that may well have been the problem.

Thnaks for the post.

 
> sm...@wa... wrote:
> 
> >>Mmm, perhaps the snapshots are broken, but if so it's strange that
> >>this sort of thing only happens with one app. Can anybody shed some
> >>light here?
> >>    
> >>
> >Well this is not that much help, but I've had Blender implode without
> >attempting to render anything, it is / was IMO an unstable program.
> >
> >This is was well before snapshots, stock LM 8.1
> >
> >At the same time UT / Q3A / RTCW / etc worked perfectly.
> >
> >  
> >
> >>>Sorry, but i am not subscribed to the list, so please CC: me in
> >>>reply...
> >>>
> >>>Thanks to all dri developer for their work, but i have only ONE
> >>>problem that can't make me happy with these drivers.
> >>>
> >>>I have a radeon 8500 and i can't render in blender more than *one
> >>>time*.
> >>>
> >>>Please, can someone more expert than me do some tests with blender
> >>>to discover if it is a driver bug or a blender issue ?
> >>>
> >>>When i try to render an image a second time blender quits
> >>>unexpectedly with this message:
> >>>
> >>>X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of
> >range>>for operation)  Major opcode of failed request:  128
> >(XFree86-DRI)>>  Minor opcode of failed request:  9 ()
> >>>  Value in failed request:  0x18000ca
> >>>  Serial number of failed request:  1039
> >>>  Current serial number in output stream:  1039
> >>>
> >>>I use Debian Unstable with XFree 4.3.0 unofficial packages and
> >>>kernel 2.4.21-pre6, dri snapshot r200-20030404-linux.i386.tar.bz2 
> >>>and blender 2.26
> >>>
> >>>Thanks in advance for your help :) 
> >>>      


Liam
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