[CentOS] Various OpenGL apps crashing in CentOS 5?

Fri Aug 22 15:55:09 UTC 2008
Rubin <rubin at xs4all.nl>

Hi All,

I'm experiencing odd behaviour with various OpenGL apps I'm (trying to) 
use. I have an IBM Thinkpad X60s with the Intel GMA chipset, the 945GM 
to be precise. I have glxinfo/glxgears working normally, disabled 
composite in xorg.conf and everything seems fine.

However, there are a few applications that I use that show rather 
strange behaviour that I think is related to the same underlying (as yet 
unidentified) problem. Here is my list:

* Google Earth 4.3
Installed in /opt/googleearth. Starts, but with extremely slow 
performance. Unusable, Closing the window takes about 10 seconds.

* OpenOffice 2.4.0
Installed in /opt/openoffice. Failed to start when using the "intel" or 
"i810" Xorg driver. "vesa" driver works fine. Later learned that setting 
GTK_MODULES="" works around the problem while using the "intel" or 
"i810" drivers and that it might have to do with the gnome integration 
stuff in OpenOffice.

* Maya 2008
Installed in /opt/maya. Fails to start (sig 11) when using the "intel" 
or "i810" Xorg driver. "vesa" driver works fine (but with abominable 3D 
performance obviously). A gdb backtrace tells me:
#0  0x00000000 in ?? ()
#1  0xad1e3427 in _mesa_endDispatchOverride () from /usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so
#2  0xad1e3c54 in _mesa_make_current () from /usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so
#3  0xad1beb18 in intelMakeCurrent () from /usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so
#4  0xad1a4531 in __driUtilUpdateDrawableInfo () from 
/usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so
#5  0x00aa8c5c in glXDestroyContext () from /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
#6  0x00aaae3f in glXMakeCurrentReadSGI () from /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
#7  0x00aab0e3 in glXMakeCurrent () from /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
#8  0xb48cf778 in GlXCreateMDraw () from /opt/maya/lib/lib3dGraphics.so
#9  0x07e7f4e1 in XtUnrealizeWidget () from /usr/lib/libXt.so.6
#10 0x07e7f663 in XtUnrealizeWidget () from /usr/lib/libXt.so.6
#11 0x07e7f663 in XtUnrealizeWidget () from /usr/lib/libXt.so.6
#12 0x07e7f663 in XtUnrealizeWidget () from /usr/lib/libXt.so.6
#13 0x07e7f663 in XtUnrealizeWidget () from /usr/lib/libXt.so.6
#14 0x07e7f663 in XtUnrealizeWidget () from /usr/lib/libXt.so.6
#15 0x07e7f663 in XtUnrealizeWidget () from /usr/lib/libXt.so.6
#16 0x07e7f663 in XtUnrealizeWidget () from /usr/lib/libXt.so.6
#17 0x07e7f663 in XtUnrealizeWidget () from /usr/lib/libXt.so.6
#18 0x07e7f663 in XtUnrealizeWidget () from /usr/lib/libXt.so.6
#19 0x07e7f91e in XtRealizeWidget () from /usr/lib/libXt.so.6
#20 0xb54900d2 in Twindow::unStow () from /opt/maya/lib/libExtensionLayer.so
#21 0xb547162e in TiceShowWindowCmd::doCommand () from 
/opt/maya/lib/libExtensionLayer.so
#22 0xb5ac16f1 in Mel_Command_Dispatch () from 
/opt/maya/lib/libCommandEngine.so
#23 0xb5ae4160 in node_exec () from /opt/maya/lib/libCommandEngine.so
#24 0xb5b060eb in fc_if () from /opt/maya/lib/libCommandEngine.so
#25 0xb5ae4160 in node_exec () from /opt/maya/lib/libCommandEngine.so
#26 0xb5ae4326 in sophia_call_executable () from 
/opt/maya/lib/libCommandEngine.so
#27 0xb5b0085a in SophiaExecutable::evaluate () from 
/opt/maya/lib/libCommandEngine.so
#28 0xb5ac6e43 in TcommandEngine::sourceFile () from 
/opt/maya/lib/libCommandEngine.so
#29 0x08059e66 in TmayaApp::initGUI ()
#30 0xb533bc10 in Tapplication::start () from 
/opt/maya/lib/libExtensionLayer.so
#31 0x08054e96 in appmain ()
#32 0x080640d6 in main ()


I'm fairly sure this has something to do with the mesa 3d driver for the 
Intel 945GM but I cannot confirm this and I would like to search 
further. Does anyone have any suggestions as to where I could look next?

Thanks in advance,

Kind regards,


Rurib.