On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 11:56:37AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > i got a message from someone telling me about this two patches. Apparently > > kbdrate.patch is needed on some macs since the kbdrate changes in Xfree. I > > have no macs, and lost my mail archive, so i don't know if this is still true > > with 3.3.6-3, please someone from the debian-powerpc list test it. > > They mess directly with the (assumed PC-style) keyboard hardware, which breaks > horribly on machines that don't have such hardware. This patch definitely has > to go in. Ah. I wrote a patch for this myself and submitted it upstream because it caused a build crash on architectures without ioport() defined. It is already in the existing packages (3.3.6-3). > > The second patch fbdev-dpms.patch contains a patch to have dpms aware fbdev > > Xserver. Since i cannot compile, i couldn't test it. > > I never tried that patch, but it's needed to make use of the power save ioctl > in frame buffer devices. Okay, thanks for the info. I'll queue this up for 3.3.6-4. -- G. Branden Robinson | Damnit, we're all going to die; let's Debian GNU/Linux | die doing something *useful*! branden@ecn.purdue.edu | -- Hal Clement, on comments that space roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | exploration is dangerous
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