Re: Mutter failing to handle failed mode sets

2018-09-06 Thread Michael Thayer via gnome-shell-list
Hello Jonas, 06.09.2018 16:01, Jonas Ådahl wrote: > Mutter should already handle falling back on plain mode sets if flipping > failed. Not sure if I was quite clear. We do not support flipping at all, and it is the mode set which fails. It looks to me (am I right?) like Mutter does not handle t

Re: Mutter failing to handle failed mode sets

2018-09-06 Thread Jonas Ådahl via gnome-shell-list
Hi, Mutter should already handle falling back on plain mode sets if flipping failed. I'd suggest opening a issue (on https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/issues/new) with reproduction steps etc. A question however (to answer in the reported issue) is why a subsequent mode flip fixes things if the

Mutter failing to handle failed mode sets

2018-09-06 Thread Michael Thayer via gnome-shell-list
Hello, Hans (on CC) asked me to file a bug for this, but I wanted to ask on the mailing list first in case I am misreading the code. We have been looking at a problem where GNOME Shell on a VirtualBox guest with the Additions video driver becomes unusable when a mode set operation fails (due to t