i915GM xorg 7 crash

[Wilkinson, Alex]

    0n Wed, May 17, 2006 at 12:47:58AM -0700, Eric Anholt wrote: 

    >On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 08:23 +0000, Angka H. K. wrote:
    >> Yes it's not crash the system directly. the X start and can be used (
    >> This email I send from the laptop that contai the bug).
    >> The system crash when the X is exited or glxgears started (I don't
    >> have any other opengl app).
    >> 
    >> For the debugging I think I can't do that, because it's the only
    >> mechine I have. If you interested I'll send you the core dump. By the
    >> way attached is my X log and glxinfo output.
    >
    >OK, I got the DRI up and running on my i915 laptop and played with AIGLX
    >briefly.  Unlike the Radeon, I can start X and start an indirect app, at
    >least.  I did find a couple of crashers, and hopefully I'll track those
    >down soon, but it may not happen.  They were pure userland (GL driver)
    >crashes, at least, so anybody with a second machine should be able to
    >tackle them relatively easily without having to interact with the
    >kernel.

What is meant by "an indirect app" ?

 -aW