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  1. Bug #1492037
  2. Comment #48

Comment 48 for bug 1492037

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In , Jan Steffens (heftig) wrote :

(In reply to Martin Peres from comment #39)
> This patch should be a good workaround:
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~ickle/mesa/commit/?h=brw-
> batch&id=e2a696a4cd93c2dbe445243de48ed478fbdb8009
>
> I will test it tonight on my home machine and see if I can reproduce it. The
> patch may make the screen flicker for a frame instead of crashing. The
> actual problem is a race condition of DRI2 that is not trivial to fix.

This patch seems to solve the brw_meta_fast_clear crashes I've had in Firefox and Steam since Mesa 10.6. Cheers!