Package: xserver-xorg Severity: normal Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-1 libvgahw.a in X.org's xserver 6.8.2 is miscompiled by gcc-4. This is a known bug to X.org [1][2][3], gcc [4] and even Red Hat [5], who've posted a libvgahw.a [6] that fixed it, at least in my case. I found that the libvgahw.a from xserver-xorg 6.8.2.dfsg.1-0pre1v1 also worked fine. (No longer avaiable on people.debian.org, but I had it installed on another machine.) I understand this is also already known to the Debian X Maintatiner, but I couldn't find a bug against either xorg or gcc-4.0 packgages in the BTS, nor any mention in the debian-x email archives. As such, I guess this is more of a visibility bug, so I (and presumably anyone who subscribes to it) can see when the problem's solved and no longer have to manually intervene in xorg-xserver upgrades. [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2976 [2] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2991 [3] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3557 [4] http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22278 [5] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161242 [6] ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/libvgahw.a -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (900, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.11 Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, Paul.Hampson@Anu.edu.au 7th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU Shorter .sig for a more eco-friendly paperless office.
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