Comment 3 for bug 245888

Are you using the intel-batchbuffer branch? I seem to recall getting a black screen and similar (but not identical) messages when DRI2 was in use.

(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Hey, if you start compiz in a terminal, you may see "failed to create drawable"
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> I can see this message too and the screen is black.
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> > messages. If this is the case, you are experiencing the same issue I am, which
> > I described in "CreateDrawable failing with old DRI" on the xorg mailing list.
> > I have been unable to isolate the underlying cause of this and have yet to hear
> > back from Kristian or the list. Superficially, it looked like mesa commit
> > 23635510e3333ea8056311afa741c5e6d7c9ec15 might fix the issue, but no such luck.
> Yes, The commit does not work for me.
>