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Re: Possible Show-Stopper bug in X



Sorry about the big To: and Cc: lines, but since this is the X maintainer's
Official Word on the subject, I wanted to make sure it gets disseminated.

On Sat, Jul 18, 1998 at 10:55:43PM +0000, Chris Davis wrote:
> On 18 Jul 1998, Gregory S. Stark wrote:
> > > Brenden seemed to think it was related to PCI detection changes in the
> > > 3.3.2.2 XF86 release which sounds right to me. Have you tried 3.3.2.2-2 ?
> > > I'm about to try it tonight. Brenden didn't close the bug so I'm not
> > > optimistic, but he did say it closed every critical bug so maybe.

The severity of that bug was normal.  I have no fix for it.  I also haven't
yet talked about this with the upstream guys, but I will be within in the
next couple of days.

In the meantime, people who *can* use an alternative X server probably
should.

I can forsee two outcomes for the hamm release of XFree86:

1) XFree86 gets back to me with a fix, and I'll apply it.

2) I'll "un-patch" the 3.3.2 patch level 2 changes to the SVGA server.
None of those patches was security-related in any way, unlike most of the
other changes.

At first I was just going to leave it in, figuring XFree86 knew what they
were doing, and that a small minority of people would be affected.  But I
keep hearing from people bitten by this thing and it could really hurt
Debian 2.0 if it's left in.

-- 
G. Branden Robinson                 |          You live and learn.
Purdue University                   |          Or you don't live long.
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