On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 03:29:51PM +0200, Sven Luther scrawled: > Maybe things will change in the future, but that said, i think that if > the debian porting effort happened during the same time as the XFree86 > developpment, it would be easier, since we would have to check the > XFree86 changes in order of them not to break stuff for us and not the > other way around. Also detecting broken stuff earlier and feeding our > patches more quickly to upstream may make live easier as well. That means that we'll be unable to support the version in sid, then. There's only a limited number of maintainers and porters. The issue here isn't skill or anything like it, just time, pure and simple. > BTW, do you per chance know if there is an XF86Config way of disabling > the RGBA pointer ? I was developping a driver using an mid january CVS > snapshot, but since i updated to 4.3.0 X crashes when the cursor reaches > the bottom part of the screen in Gnome 2.2. I guess i will have to gdb > it, and now that i have a borrowed second computer, it will perhaps be > easier. Set an Xresource: Xcursor.core: 1 Another FAQ entry for me to add to -0ds3v2 (patch merge from hell - 4.3 branch, bits of HEAD, plus Michel's Radeon DDC patch), along with the other 3 I haven't even written yet. *sigh*. -- Daniel Stone <dstone@trinity.unimelb.edu.au> Developer, Trinity College, University of Melbourne
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