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Bug#275318: xserver-xfree86: A typo in an error message



On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 11:22:11AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 06:40:32AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > FYI, the woody version of XFree86 is only being updated for security fixes.
> 
> Known to me; in a hurry, though, so didn't have a time to re-check.
> 
> > xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86$ grep -r 'supprted' *
> > drivers/fbdev/fbdev.c:               "Text mode is not supprted by drivers/fbdev.\n"
> > drivers/fbdev/fbdev.c:               "EGA/VGA Planes are not supprted yet by drivers/fbdev.");
> > drivers/fbdev/fbdev.c:          "Internal error: Text mode is not supprted by drivers/fbdev.\n"
> > drivers/fbdev/fbdev.c:          "Internal error: Text mode is not supprted by drivers/fbdev.\n"
> > drivers/fbdev/fbdev.c:          "Internal error: EGA/VGA Planes are not supprted"
> > 
> > It's quite consistently misspelled, and only in this one source file.
> > 
> > Bizarre.  Someone must have been on the pipe.
> 
> Haha, seems like an ispell(1) trojan ;-))

I have prepared a patch for this, and several other messages from the fbdev
driver that annoyed me, and am testing it now.

Thanks for your report!

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G. Branden Robinson                |     You are not angry with people when
Debian GNU/Linux                   |     you laugh at them.  Humor teaches
branden@debian.org                 |     them tolerance.
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