[directfb-dev] [directfb-cvs] XDirectFB: Changes to 'master'

[Denis Oliver Kropp]

Claudio Ciccani wrote:
> Denis Oliver Kropp wrote:
>> Ville Syrjälä wrote:
>>> On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 10:14:21AM +0200, Denis Oliver Kropp wrote:
>>>> Another bug we could fix is with transparent(?) X windows, e.g. when
>>>> you open the window menu in xfce4. The whole screen gets black instead
>>>> of showing the windows below. I guess we need to blit the layer to the
>>>> window after creating it.
>>> Never tried xfce4 myself.
>> It's very nice, clean and has all that I want.
>>
>>> Another bug is that Claudio's XRender code crashes for me :( I haven't
>>> had the energy to track it down but it reliably crashes on startup. IIRC
>>> it was when some pixmap was being freed but IIRC it didn't actually crash
>>> in any XRender specific code but some other pixmap free related stuff.
>> Saw that crash, but did not debug it at all. Sounds like some XRender
>> code writes to already deallocated or totally wrong memory.
>>
> 
> Might be the server is requesting to destroy a picture that was not
> initialized (or already freed) by Xrender. In this case the crash should
> happen in directfbDestroyPicture() (@ directfbRender.c).
> 
> My Xorg installation is a bit old and I have never experienced this bug
> with it, so actually I can't help debugging the code.
> I will try with an upgrade to a recent version (7.2).

I can put tar balls of the installation and the compiled sources
somewhere if it takes too long for you. But I guess make will
rebuild all sources anyhow because of the system header dependencies.

-- 
Best regards,
  Denis Oliver Kropp

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