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Re: Future of X packages in Debian



On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 02:44:30PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote:
> Wouter Verhelst <wouter@grep.be> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 09:02:50AM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
> >> Our questions to the community are:
> >> 
> >> * What kinds of X packages would you like to see in the future?
> >
> > Working ones. With as few (upstream and debian-specific) bugs as
> > possible.
> >
> > Case at hand: I have yet to see the first XFree86 (server|module) and
> > graphics board combination that
> > * supports the full potential of the board
> > * does not reproducably receive SIGSEGV
> > * is free
> 
> Come on now, surely the old mach64 driver met all of these conditions
> for the supported cards, for as much "potential" as those cards had
> anyway.

Well, no. I have a Mach64 GX which (last I tried) does not support any
mode with more than 256 bits. See #76291.

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