[Xquartz-dev] fb / rootless crash bugs

Jeremy Huddleston jeremyhu at berkeley.edu
Wed Dec 5 19:36:03 PST 2007


Yeah, good idea.  I'll release one in a few hours once I'm finished  
reorganizing some stuff.

--Jeremy

On Dec 5, 2007, at 19:22, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> I think the only way you're going to get any genuine feedback is to  
> release another point release with that enabled, then you'll know  
> when people send you crash reports whether or not they actually  
> enabled it.
>
> - Jordan
>
> On Dec 5, 2007, at 6:25 PM, Ben Byer wrote:
>
>> On Dec 4, 2007, at 4:02 PM, Ben Byer wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> It turns out there's a threshold, above which it uses the  
>>> "accelerated" calls, and below which it uses the fb/ code.  So, I  
>>> put a hack in that disables the fb code if you create a file  
>>> called "/tmp/disable_fb.txt":
>>> http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/xserver.git;a=commit;h=4dcd9106a89ceb6c72546a12849be04660f574fd
>>>
>>> If you're experiencing crashes in the fb/rootless code, I'd like  
>>> to hear if enabling that fixes them.  I'd also like to hear if it  
>>> impacts performance.
>>
>> Anyone try this yet?  Reports of rootless crashes on the "old and  
>> busted" 10.5.0 Xquartz continue to stream in, and I know we didn't  
>> fix all of them (yet) in Xserver-1.3.  If I don't hear back soon,  
>> I'm just gonna turn that hack on permanently until someone tells me  
>> why I shouldn't.
>>
>> :)
>> --
>> Ben Byer
>> CoreOS / BSD Technology Group, XDarwin maintainer
>>
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