Re: [Dri-users] ATI Radeon 7500 Mobility / Debian / XFree86 4.2.0

[Jacek R. <pa...@ft...>]

On czw, 2003-03-27 at 13:45, Felix Kühling wrote:
> On 27 Mar 2003 10:00:26 +0100
> Jacek Rosik <pa...@ft...> wrote:
> 
> > Hi
> > 
> > On czw, 2003-03-27 at 07:52, Logan Capaldo wrote:
> > > Hello, I am writing to the list because I have ran out of ideas. My 
> > > basic problem is that all OpenGL apps display nothing but a black 
> > > screen. The problem is, there are no error messages. In fact glxgears 
> > > gives me framerates in stdout, without actually displaying anything but 
> > > blackness. Here is the output of glxinfo:
> > 
> > Are You using woody or sid? Does those apps always show black screen or
> > sometimes something appears when You move or resize window?
> > 
> > I remember having such problem some time ago. I don't remember exactly
> > the reason. I think it just disappeared after installing new drivers ;).
> 
> IIRC there was a gcc-3.2 compiler bug that caused such problems as you
> describe. But that was fixed quite a while ago by a workaround in the
> DRI code. Another way to avoid the problem is to add "-mno-mmx -mno-3dnow"
> to the GCC command line (somewhere in config/cf/host.def).
> 
Yes, I remember that compiling drivers with gcc-2.95 on Gentoo helped.
That's why I've asked about distro. But it was something different on
debian. Sid was using gcc-2.95 as a default compiler at that moment and
I've also had this bug. I remember it was a little bit strange. Anyway
installing new drivers should help.

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Jacek Rosik <pa...@ft...>