r300 needs swtcl update for 200m

Thanks, would you be able to point to the relevant fixes needed?

basically it should be git up to here:
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=mesa/mesa.git;a=commit;h=6257ed8663eddb4ebdf99ba69cfe2ced82182ed3

but the recent git does not hurt either. (patched ubuntus mesa myself)

I think recent git would be too risky and intrusive for Gutsy at least, and for Hardy we'll hope for a new upstream release. But if we can identify some real bug fixes like the commit you linked to (as opposed to enhancements and new developments and rework), we can try to backport them one by one. Do you know if that commit alone fixes compiz crashes? Do you have a bug link for these crashes?

BTW, does the 7.0.1-2 from Debian fix these issues? That version would maybe be easier to merge into Ubuntu, and it has all fixes from the 7.0.1 git branch. However, Gutsy is pretty much frozen ATM.

mesa 7.0.1 does not contain Dave Airlies swtcl branch yet, so it would not help either. Hence this means that probably all commits regarding swtcl by Dave Airlie would have to be added. Which would proably be indeed too much, considering that I have the "dirty" patched mesa in my PPA already.

regarding the compiz crashes:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/146138
http://airlied.livejournal.com/46648.html

Thanks. Yes, I am afraid this will have to wait then AFAICT.

mesa 7.0.2 in hardy still has this problem...

I guess the commits didn't go into the 7-0 branch. They will be in 7.1 or 8.0... BTW, the second part of the patch in comment 2 seems like an obvious typo that safely can be backported, but I guess it won't help much.

it would be a pity, if 200m users would have to be another release for basic OpenGL. I have running the attached patch since the gutsy release w/o problems, though I admit is quite intrusive, but perhaps we could test it during the developing releases now...

I was going to suggest you try that patch on the Hardy version and make your own PPA, but then I checked and it seems you already did :) Can you link to/post a debdiff and changelog for your PPA version?

you can get both if you add "deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/madman2k/ubuntu hardy main" to your source list. But basically all I did is applying the patch in comment #9.
The patch replaces the r300 DRI driver with the git version from 2007-07-02 (comment2).

I've tried the packages from http://ppa.launchpad.net/madman2k/ubuntu, and I can confirm that they work much better with my xpress 200m:
1. No more "psychedelic" texture effects in xmoto
2. compiz no longer crashes X

Thank you, Pavel, for providing these packages!

Still compiz is not really usable - there are problems with scaling, everything is too large

According to David Airlie, it is now solved.

http://airlied.livejournal.com/59351.html

Experimental packages for hardy without any WARRANTY. They may not work as expected.
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/stikonas/ubuntu hardy main

Thank for the packages, Andrius!

Compiz now works great with my Xpress 200M and Hardy!

Pavel and Andrius, thanks for building test packages. I think it would be easier to evaluate your changes if you keep the original orig.tar.gz from the released Ubuntu package and just make a new diff.gz.

airlied mentioned in his blog (http://airlied.livejournal.com/59351.html) that he plans to backport changes to mesa 7.0 branch. If everything goes this way Ubuntu 8.10 will have xpress 200m working without any patches.

Tormod, now mesa_7.0.3.diff.gz can be downloaded from my repository, as you have requested.

mesa 7.1~rc1-0ubuntu1 is now in Intrepid.