[Mageia-dev] Video/X/GL/gnome-shell issues? (was: Re: ANNOUNCE: The /usr move cometh! <---- Instructions)

[Christian Lohmaier]

Hi *,

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:13 PM, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Olav Vitters at 23/07/12 19:31 did gyre and gimble:
>> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:55:31AM +0200, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
>>> On 22 July 2012 19:15, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
>>>>> I am having other issues (X/audio/network related). Making Cauldron
>>>>> totally unstable.
>>>>
>>>> I'm having issues with X due to intel drivers. Gnome-shell crashes
>>>> frequently with "out of space" errors in some intel thing which smells
>>>> to me like something leaking textures.

In case this thread is used as a reference to graphic-driver related
problems, I'll throw in mine as well:

Besides a corrupted display (unreadable fonts/glitches on screen) that
occurs after longer uptime and/or when using lots of memory (that also
was present in Mageia1 / 2d desktop) as described here:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45092

I also experience problems playing back video in gnome-shell. The
video is jerky/choppy/jumpy (the opposite of smooth).
I.e. when there is a pan in the video (camera moves in a smooth
motion), the video jumps. Instead of playing back the frames as
*  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *
it is more like
****     * * ***    * *

As with the previous problem, it gets worse the longer the machine is
running (I didn't find out what exactly makes it worse). As a
workaround one can restart gnome-shell (<alt>+<F2>, r, <enter>)
While the problem is minimal after a fresh reboot or after restarting
gnome-shell, it still occurs. No such problem in gnome-classic, i.e.
in the 2d version of the desktop. There playback is always smooth, no
matter how long the uptime was.

Intel 965GM in Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo Mobile U9200

So I agree that something is fishy.

But as long as I can just restart gnome-shell and get adequate
(although not as-good-as-with-classic-gnome) playback....

ciao
Christian