Comment 8 for bug 682327

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Chris Halse Rogers <email address hidden> wrote:
> I'm looking into a similar problem with r600, although for me mesa
> simply causes compiz to segfault.
>
> For the bug I'm looking at, there are two work-arounds:
> 1) Disable mipmapping in the switcher preferences, or
> 2) Enable r600g by adding the ForceGallium option to xorg.conf
>
> They're just work-arounds, but it'd be nice to know if they work around
> your bug, too.

Another option is to add a quirk for that driver in the detection
plugin and neuter the function which generates mipmaps, although this
is evil and should be a last resort if we cannot fix the driver.

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> Compiz crashes when hitting Alt-Tab - Mesa 7.9 implementation error: bad format in _mesa_format_to_type_and_comps
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/682327
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