XPresentPixmap() fails on some driver, not sure why.

[Michel Dänzer]

On 09/06/17 09:07 PM, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Non-work related question... xfwm4 (xfce window manager, from git), have
> two different implementations to reduce tearing, GL and Present.
> 
> As it now defaults to present, I am receiving more reports of "frozen
> screens".
> 
> I traced it back to XPresentPixmap() failing with BadWindow (the window
> being either the COW or the root window, same error)
> 
> The funny thing is when catching the XError, the resource id is 0, so if
> this is correct, no wonder this would cause a BadWindow - But why would
> it use 0 instead of the given COW or root window id?
> 
> Now, for that particular bug, the issue is said to have been solved with
> an update of presentproto headers version 1.1, pointing commit 8405ee
> (https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/proto/presentproto/commit/?id=8405ee)
> as the fix.

That's probably it; specifically, libXpresent.so.1 needs to be built
against presentproto with that fix.


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