[cairo] Threaded animation with cairo_gl backend over a GtkWidget

[Carlos López González]

Hi!
I've modified the mentioned Cairo animation with miltithreading example [1]
to use a cairo_gl_surface, expecting to have some GPU acceleration. It
works fine (doesn't crash) but when I use a cairo_gl_surface it runs much
slow than when I use a image surface (!). See code here:
https://github.com/genete/my-test-area/blob/direct_draw/src/cairo_sample.c

commenting the line at 135 and 137 I can use cairo_image or cairo_gl.

Same code has been compiled and run in a iMac 2011 using XQuarz as Xserver
with the same result.

Am I missing something at the cairo_gl code or simply I would never could
make use of my GPU in my linux laptop or my iMac?

I appreciate any help.
Thanks!

[1] http://cairographics.org/threaded_animation_with_cairo/

2013/1/15 Carlos López González <genetita at gmail.com>

> I forgot to CC cairo list
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Carlos López González <genetita at gmail.com>
> Date: 2013/1/15
> Subject: Re: [cairo] Threaded animation with cairo_gl backend over a
> GtkWidget
> To: Uli Schlachter <psychon at znc.in>
>
>
> Hi!
> I've upgraded to Ubuntu 12.10 and as part of the upgrade Ubuntu disabled
> the proprietary nvidia driver.
> With the  the nouveau driver enabled and simply enable multithreading, it
> crash.
>
> carlos at laptop:~/my-test-area/build$ LANG=C ./cairo-sample
> [xcb] Unknown request in queue while dequeuing
> [xcb] Most likely this is a multi-threaded client and XInitThreads has not
> been called
> [xcb] Aborting, sorry about that.
> cairo-sample: ../../src/xcb_io.c:178: dequeue_pending_request: Assertion
> `!xcb_xlib_unknown_req_in_deq' failed.
> Abortado (`core' generado)
>
> But when add XIniThreads()  as shown in the previous post, it doesn't
> crash but it runs *extremely* slow (?). I'm using a GeForce 8400M GS
> graphic card (glxgears runs smoothly).
>
> If I enable the private nvidia-current driver it crashes in any case with
> the same message than I had before. The suggested breakpoint or the --sync
> option doesn't help much.
>
> So which are my alternatives?
>
> If I create the cairo_gl_surface but not using
> cairo_gl_surface_create_for_window but the cairo_gl_create_surface, would
> it have GPU acceleration as well?
>
> I just want to create a minimal example of multithreading drawing over a
> gtkwidget using cairo_gl to later translate to a bigger application, but it
> seems that it is impossible.
>
> Is there any *real* application that uses Cairo with GPU acceleration in
> production?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> 2013/1/14 Uli Schlachter <psychon at znc.in>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 14.01.2013 21:24, Carlos López González wrote:
>> [...]
>> > The program 'cairo-sample' received an X Window System error.
>> > This probably reflects a bug in the program.
>> > The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
>> >   (Details: serial 230 error_code 8 request_code 135 minor_code 5)
>>
>> minor_code 5 likely is DRI2's GetBuffer request, but could also be a
>> RANDRGetScreenInfo, RenderChangePicture, SHAPEQueryExtents,
>> SHMCreatePixmap or
>> SyncQueryCounter. Of course, this doesn't really help us (does it?).
>>
>> [...]
>> >   (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
>> >    that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
>> >    To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
>> >    option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
>> >    backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error()
>> function.)
>>
>> do "break gdk_x_error" before you "run" the program.
>>
>> > [Thread 0xb4738b40 (LWP 3625) exited]
>> > [Thread 0xb54ffb40 (LWP 3624) exited]
>> > [Thread 0xb6224880 (LWP 3620) exited]
>> > [Inferior 1 (process 3620) exited with code 01]
>> > (gdb) where
>> > No stack.
>> > (gdb)
>> >
>> >
>> > How can I add the --sync option?
>>
>> If the program supports this option: "run --sync".
>>
>> Uli
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>
>
>
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> Carlos
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