Resizing window issues and workaround

Usually I try not to resize the SL viewer window, because when I do it, I often get a black window, and sometimes it never comes back - that is, I must kill -9 the process and restart the client.

This is especially true when I enlarge the window. I'd say that the bigger the window, the bigger the risk of black-window is.

A workaround that often works for me is hitting CTRL ALT F1 - that is, going to a virtual terminal - then CTRL ALT F7 to get back to X: after a few seconds, the viewer usually starts working well again.

I'm on an NVIDIA 7300 graphic card (Athlon Dual Core, Ubuntu 8.04, driver: nvidia-glx-new 169.12+2.6.24.13-18.41, Single monitor, 1600x1200) and I had the same problem with an older card (NVIDIA 6200) and previous Ubuntu (and driver) releases. It appears that using Compiz or not doesn't matter. I use every available release, Nightlies included, and the bug still persists.


Does this happen to you too?
Is it a known bug? (which Jira issue is it, please?)

I'd be happy to do specific tests / or anything else that could help solve this annoying and long-lasting bug.

For me it's the other way around. Resizing the SL window works perfectly fine. Changing to the virtual console and back to X while running some 3D accelerated application (and be in only glxgears) crashes X (black screen and not taking any keyboard or mouse input anymore, so I can't even change back to the console)

I guess it's an issue with the proprietary ATi driver.

Moin,



for me its yet an other way round

I get a black screen on start instead of the login screen, and I can not see anything before I rezise my window. See /263/78/273656/1.html

This occurs to Tungsten Driver that is used for ATI 9250 cards and Intel i810 cards. With my nv8600 I neither have the problem described by Opensource Obscure with nv[67]* and Ubuntu, nor the one described by Boroondas Gupte using glxgears.

I'm using Gentoo Linux and IceWM in all those cases.

ciao,Kephra