On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 2:32 AM, Stefan Schmidt <ste...@datenfreihafen.org> wrote:
> Hello. > > On 16/10/14 14:30, Simon wrote: > > On 10/16/2014 06:33 PM, Cedric BAIL wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 3:31 AM, ChunEon Park <her...@naver.com> wrote: > >>> what the change fail you mean? alpha switching? > >>> > >>> After this commit, gl doesn't work anymore. :( > >> As Sachiel said on the mailing list already, there was two bugs > >> before. The first one was that switching back and forth to a window > >> with alpha was failing. The second one was creating a GL context with > >> alpha was not functional with NVidia driver. I have no NVidia driver > >> and fixed the first issue by forcing the use of a GL context with > >> alpha... resulting in showing the issue to people having a NVidia > >> hardware. So if you have time and can look at why the context is not > >> usable, that would be great, otherwise bug raster. I don't plan on > >> reverting this patch, as it does fix a real issue... The only other > >> solution, that wouldn't fix issue on NVidia, but let things work, > >> would be to create two shared context and switch between one and the > >> other. > > From a distribution package maintainers point of view it would be much > > nicer if this commit didn't make it into a stable update without a > > associated fix for the NVIDIA issue. Not sure what entirely it fixed > > (maybe i can't see where alpha windows are used) but it braking GL in > > the 1.11.3 release for probably atleast 40% of users is really not a > > good solution. Keep it in git if you want but don't bork the stable > > branches for a reasonably large percentage of users. > > Where does this 40% come from? Is this a number you just made up from > your feelings or do OpenSuSe have some stats about what graphics driver > their users are using. > > I don't feel well about the idea that 40% of our users might use the > closed source nvidia driver. I would have expected way more people > having intel graphics these days or using the noveau driver. > > I probably should have made it more clear that it was a guess based off the people i talk to also from everything i had read up until this point no one had said it didn't effect noveau. Most people i chat to are either using intel (particularly on laptops) but the second biggest group is still nvidia with the Proprietary driver. With the introduction of steam on linux Nivida has done a huge amount of work improving performance in the last year, where as when i tried noveau a few months back on a second hand laptop it couldn't even render kde properly. > > But even if the number is way lower this is still a problem we need to > fix. See below. > > I guess i'll go write a patch to revert this in our stable release that > > is due to be the efl for the next openSUSE release. > Raster reverted it and I can get a 1.11.4 going next week if this is > urgent. > > For me a release with just this commit reverted is not that important as i have added a patch to obs to revert it from the 1.11.3 release, but i'm guessing there are other people out there trying the latest stable release that are unaware of the issue. A 1.11.4 with both fixes maybe worth while presuming someone has the time to make it work together. In terms of my schedule next week is probably the last week when i can push fixes before the release. After that i may do a maintenance release to include it but thats more work and id have to look up the processes so it may not happen unless people are asking about it. It may also be worth putting a note on the downloads page saying that 1.11.3 is broken for NVIDIA opengl users. Cheers Simon > regards > Stefan Schmidt > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
