Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

Cinnamon is noted to be installable, but by default on Radeon systems 6x
series
(and newer) 3D rendering is in SOFTWARE mode post install.

Installing 3d drivers from the repos for fglrx sets us up with HARDWARE 3D
rendering but renders cinnamon completely unusable. It crashes on login (and
keeps crashing) leaving no option but to kill the X server from the command
line(and try again with different window manager).I have tried with live
cd as
well with same responce.

Hi there,

Sorry for not getting back to you sooner.

El Domingo 17 Mayo 2015 09:22 CEST, Richard Jasmin <frazzledjazz@gmail.com> Ha escrito:

Please answer the following questions:
0) Can you still reproduce this problem?
1) Which version of cinnamon are you using?
    Show the ouput of: apt-cache policy cinnamon
2) How did you install the mentioned drivers?
3) Which other desktop environments work correctly?
4) Please attach the output of /var/log/Xorg.0.log and ~/.xsession-errors
    when a crash happens.  xsession-errors gets truncated every
    time there's a new login, so you need to make sure that you copy it
    away from it's normal location so that you can keep the output of the
    crash.

Thanks,
Marga

This crash required the proprietary fglrx (AMD Catalyst) driver, which has
been removed from Debian: it was last shipped in jessie and is gone from
stretch onwards. It is not installable on any currently supported release
(verified: no fglrx-driver/fglrx-modules-dkms candidate in trixie or sid),
so the reported condition can no longer occur. AMD GPUs now use the free
amdgpu/radeon drivers.

The crash also originated in fglrx's GLX/OpenGL stack under muffin rather
than in cinnamon itself. Closing as obsolete.

Thanks for the report.