[MeeGo-dev] Black screen of death when running applications on meego-handset (was: Re: Future of hildon?)

[Jesse Barnes]

On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:53:26 +0100
Robin Burchell <viroteck at viroteck.net> wrote:

> Hi Cornelius,
> 
> Excerpts from Cornelius Hald's message of Sun Jul 04 13:04:58 +0100 2010:
> > Here[1] are some screen shots of running a GTK+ application
> > (xfce4-about) on MeeGo/Handset. If mcompositor and mdecorator are both
> > running, I'm only getting a blank screen. Disabling one of both gives
> > some results.
> 
> Did you ever get to the bottom of this? I'm still hearing reports about 3rd
> party applications (not using libmeegotouch) getting black screens of death,
> I don't think it's just an SDK issue because the latest reporter at least was
> using qemu.
> 
> This seems like a pretty serious issue, and I can't find any current bug report
> on it, despite it still (seeming?) to exist.

Yeah, this is an open bug: http://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2953.
I'm digging into the decorator and compositor now to see what the root
cause is.

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center