Comment 44 for bug 368049

Yes, I can spin the ring switcher full speed for 30 seconds straight without crashes. I also tried lots of other things like spinning the cube fast and what not and with this fix I was unable to crash. The only thing that made me unsure was the "direct rendering: no" because I was afraid I had misconfigured my system in such a way that I was no longer hitting the same execution path in the code (and thus just wasn't seeing the bug anymore).

If I run glxinfo with verbose this is what it says:
direct rendering: No (LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT set)
Also if I do "env | grep LIBGL" I can see "LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1" but I have no idea where this was set and by what file/program etc? As far as I know I have not set this myself.

Actually after googling around I found this bug (marked INVALID):
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/desktop-effects/+bug/137388
(this bug describes by issue pretty accurately. If I launch a gnome-terminal and then do "glxinfo | grep direct" it says "direct rendering: No (LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT set)" however in the same session on the same computer if I press ALT-F2 and type "xterm" and then do "glxinfo | grep direct" then it says "direct rendering: yes".