Re: bug-reports amaya 8.51 and 9.51

Hi Regis and Rigo,

I mouved to [email protected] as it's probably too technical for usual 
users.


On Thursday 08 June 2006 17:14, Regis Boudin wrote:
> Irene Vatton said:
> >> Well, this is probably a bug in the Mesa/X/ati DRI driver, according to
> >> one of the Mesa maintainers for Debian.
> >
> > This is exactly the reason why we distribute by default a version with a
> > soft GL implementation.
>
> The problem is that there seem to be another bug somewhere between
> wxWidgets and X withe software GL implementation as well.

Yes, there are also some bugs in the soft Mesa implementation. I detected some 
problems with some redisplays.

>
> >> Now, I don't understand things anymore. It doesn't work for me. Maybe
> >> because I didn't have the DRI enable when I tested yesterday evening.
> >
> > The version from the W3C server doesn't use shared  redland, wxWidgets,
> > libGL, and libGLU libraries.
>
> Agreed. Though it doesn't explain why it crashed for me.

That's very annoying. Perhaps "strace" could help.

>
> >> It's slightly more complicated. The Debian one is linked against the
> >> shared libGL and libGLU, rather than the one provided in the source
> >> tarball. The problem is, there seem to be a bug somewhere in wxWidgets
> >> and/or Mesa, though I haven't managed to find where exactly.
> >> Before someone asks, I tried to build with static wxWidgets and Mesa
> >> from
> >> the source, and I still had the error.
> >
> > Did you link with local wxWidgets and Mesa libraries?
>
> I tried different variants. both shared, shared Mesa, both static (linked
> against the source from the tarball), and it always crashes for me. I
> could notice that my patches didn't make it possible to use a shared
> wxWidgets but a local Mesa, which would probably be quite nasty anyway.

Perhaps the new build keeps previous options. When I want to change this kind 
of options, I destroy the object directory and I regenerate a new one.
Our experience shows that the majority of problems comes from libGL and libGLU 
libraries, but I have no more explanation.

>
> One fairly common thing however is that everybody reporting the bug seems
> to be using and ATI driver... I have yet to hear from someone using a
> different graphic card. I also know it works with the nVidia proprietary
> driver, which uses its own GL library.
>
> > The best would be to have GL hardware implementations fixed.
>
> Definitely. I think everyone agrees with that. Unfortunately, it's not
> something I know much about.
>
> > But meanwhile Rigo, I don't know if it works, you could test if the
> > debian package generated by Regis works with GL_ACCELERATED=no in the
> > file .amaya/thot.rc
> > I know that this GL_ACCELERATED variable must be set to "no" on a large
> > set of Windows platforms to prevent important troubles.
>
> This variable is only valid on Windows, if I remember what I saw when
> digging through the wxWidgets source.

You're probably right. Stéphane Gully wrote this patch in the Windows 
wxWidgets version.

>
> Regis

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     Irène.
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