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

[Cornelius Hald]

Hi Robin,

On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 17:53 +0100, Robin Burchell 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.

The last time I tried, I was able to run plain Qt and MTF applications
but not GTK or Xlib stuff. I was following a bunch of (maybe) related
bugs but didn't get any new information there.

> This seems like a pretty serious issue, and I can't find any current bug report
> on it, despite it still (seeming?) to exist.

Now that Jesse is looking into this issue I'm hoping for fast resolution
of this issue. If there is anything I should/could do to help, please
let me know.

Cheers,
Conny