Bug#546538: warzone2100: 546538: probably a driver/KMS issue

Stephen Gran sgran at debian.org
Mon Sep 14 08:08:46 UTC 2009


reassign 546538 xserver-xorg-video-intel
affects 546538 +warzone2100
thanks

This one time, at band camp, Paul Wise said:
> This is very likely to be a bug in the newer version of your driver, the
> kernel or mesa. Please reassign it to the appropriate xserver-xorg-video
> package and set the affects to warzone2100.
> 
> I imagine a debugging session in #debian-x or the appropriate upstream
> IRC channel will be needed to figure this issue out.
> 
> It would be very much worth installing some other OpenGL games/packages
> and trying them to see if any others have the same issue.

I tried extreme tux racer, it works without any problems, which is why
I thought I'd file the bug on warzone2100 instead of the driver.

> Here is a bug that looks similar that might have hints about what
> workarounds might be available:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/warzone2100/+bug/374531
> 
> The obvious workaround to try would be to disable KMS and downgrade to
> testing instead of unstable, IIRC the X stack hasn't migrated to testing
> since before lenny was released.

That launchpad bug is indeed relevant - it's almost exactly the symptoms
I'm seeing, and the same video card.  I'll reassign this over to the
video-intel driver.

Cheers,
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