[Pkg-blender-maintainers] Bug#299441: screen artifacts / widgets not rendering

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Cyril Brulebois wrote:

>On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:22:12PM +1100, Matthew Hawkins wrote:
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>>I am running an X.org server w/DRI enabled, 
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>Got an up-to-date sid with X.org 6.9, just installed the libgl1-mesa-dri
>package from experimental to get DRI support for my ATI (FireGL Mobility
>T2e) card. Acceleration works fine (glxgears, xmoto, ...) but Blender is
>blinking (on each redraw, AFAICT).
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>(Blender 2.41-1)
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>>and the workaround in
>>bug 239184 does resolve the problem for me.  ie, launching like so:
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>>$ LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 blender
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>That works perfectly for me. Many thanks.
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>>gives me a useable interface again.  This should perhaps be mentioned in
>>a README.Debian or somesuch.
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>This sounds reasonable to me, and that's the fact (README.Debian). So if
>this bug is about mentioning it, I think it should be closed. If not,
>I'm wondering whether upstream should be contacted to gather more info
>on what cards/X drivers/... are implied in such matters.
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>>I have a Matrox G450 and am using XFCE 4.2
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>Got Xfce 4.2 too, but quite sure it's not related. :-)
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>Cheers,
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I got XFCE aswell, i think it is related. And i do not encounter these 
problems when i have it windowed. And it only triggers when i try to render.