Re: X kills my powerbook
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 11:14:55AM +0200, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 10:00:31AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 03:37:35PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > > Known bug in xorg 6.9, try to go back to 6.8 if you can.
> > > > I don't know if 7.0 is ready or not (it is in experimental
> > > > but not yet built for PPC).
> > >
> > > I've fixed a lot of those problems in X.org CVS, I don't know if distro
> > > picked them up yet, though you'll need 7.0 to run the fixed radeon
> > > driver.
> >
> > This is not yet fixed in debian though, so right now we don't have a working X
> > in those cases.
> >
> > Dear X team, could you maybe comment on when this fix will be added to the
> > modular X tree, at least in the experimental version ? I would rather it be
> > backported to 6.9 asap, since i am not sure that 7.0 is installable fully
> > right now, but i may be wrong.
>
> Patches are, as always, welcome ...
Is it currently possible to install 7.0 from experimental, or will it die
horribly ? There is no powerpc build of those experimental packages, right ?
Could it be possible to have a list of all those experimental packages to
autobuild-and-upload them, or even better put them all in a separate
repository instead of experimental ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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