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Bug 95621 - ati-drivers-8.14.13 contains an actual fix Neverwinter Nights' memory leak
Summary: ati-drivers-8.14.13 contains an actual fix Neverwinter Nights' memory leak
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High minor
Assignee: X11 External Driver Maintainers
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Reported: 2005-06-09 17:12 UTC by gent_bz
Modified: 2005-06-10 04:43 UTC (History)
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Description gent_bz 2005-06-09 17:12:19 UTC
From http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.14.13.html :
"Applications using certain OpenGL calls such as, glTexSubImage no longer
results in a driver memory leak"

The memory leak in Neverwinter Nights was caused by glTexSubImage (apparently -
there are details and links to details in this thread :
http://rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33805259 ) and this is (apparently)
fixed in the latest driver release (according to the changelog excerpt above).

As such, the lines :

    ewarn "***"
    ewarn "If you are experiencing problems with memory allocation try to add"
    ewarn "this line to in your X11 configuration file:"
    ewarn "         Option \"KernelModuleParm\"  \"agplock=0\" "
    ewarn "That should solve the hangups you could have with Neverwinter Nights"
    ewarn "***"

should be removed from the ebuild.  (They should be removed from all ati-drivers
 ebuilds as they never actually fixed the problem - they just seemed to slow it
down.)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Comment 1 Luca Barbato gentoo-dev 2005-06-10 04:43:33 UTC
I forgot to remove the einfo message, thank you