3D windows effect makes Xorg crash

[Robert Noland]

On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 14:18 +0200, BARDOU Pierre wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I did a make buildworld this morning. Previous was on Monday...
> 
> The problem is still the same : 3D windows makes X crash and my PC returns
> to GDM. If I login again, the WM doesn't even launch.

I have 3d windows enabled on my 965gm, though I do have the "only on
mouse rotate" option set.  I did notice that you are running amd64, so
it could be related to that.  A crash dump from X might point us in the
right direction.

robert.

> 
> I tried water and fire effect, no problems.
> 
> 
> For the performance issue, I thought there was a problem because I have
> another PC with compiz fusion (built in ubuntu 8.04), which performs better
> (wobbling windows, cube and fire are much more fluid) despite of better
> colors (ubuntu uses 24 bith depth, my freeBSD 16) and worse hardware
> (Pentium D, 1Go DDRII, 945G chipset). 
>  
> 
> Thank you for your help !
> 
> --
> Cordialement,
> Pierre BARDOU
> 
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Robert Noland [mailto:rnoland at FreeBSD.org] 
> Envoyé : jeudi 16 octobre 2008 17:20
> À : BARDOU Pierre
> Cc : freebsd-x11 at freebsd.org
> Objet : Re: 3D windows effect makes Xorg crash
> 
> On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 16:14 +0200, BARDOU Pierre wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >    I am = trying to set  up compiz fusion on a Dell OptiPlex 330 (Intel
> >    Pentium E2180, 2Go = DDRII,  G33 Chipset).
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >    I have = performance  problems and as soon as I activate the 3d
> >    windows effects X server  crashes.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >    Details,  configuration files and logs :
> > 
> >    [1]http://f= orum.compiz-fusion.org/showthread.php?t=10009
> > 
> >    Adamk = on this forum  advised me to post here.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >    This = problem is not  a big concern to me, I am trying to setup
> >    this just to fill up my idle = time at  work.
> > 
> >    So if = you want to  improve G33 support I can help you by doing
> >    some = tests.
> 
> First, please make sure that you have very recent -CURRENT, I made some
> updates to the agp handling of g33 chipsets recently.  ~600 fps in gears is
> not that unreasonable (glxgears is not a benchmark),  I get about 720
> - 800 on my 965gm.  The only obvious issue that I see from your logs is that
> write combining failed, which would have an impact on performance.
> Once we are sure that you are on the latest code, if there are still issues,
> we can look into those.  It is also plausible that this is an issue with
> mesa handling the g33, but that would likely show up on linux as well.
> 
> Our ports will get xorg-7.4 once 7.1 is released, which will update mesa to
> 7.2 as well.  FWIW, even the water plugin is finally working correctly for
> me with the update.
> 
> robert.
> 
> > 
> > 
> >    If you = don't have  time, no worries, I'll survive without 3D
> >    windows :)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >    --
> > 
> >    Cordialement,
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >    Pierre BARDOU
> > 
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> > 
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> >    Mail : [2]bardou.p at mipih.fr
> > 
> > References
> > 
> >    1. 3D"http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthread.php?t=10009"
> >    2. 3D"mailto:bardou.p at mipih.fr"
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