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Re: X kills my powerbook



On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 10:55:02AM +0100, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 10:48:26AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 10:00 +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 ? 
> > 
> > The patch is included in xserver-xorg-video-ati SVN but hasn't been
> > uploaded to experimental yet. Ironically, it's incorrectly called
> > 'ppc_fix.diff'.
> 
> Xorg has switched to SVN? I have the CVS repository but I 
> never heard of a subversion one. 
> 
> Besides that Ben claimed that he had checked in patches to
> Xorg's CVS tree IIRC.
> 
> At least I can more or less understand subversion, I always
> had a tremendous impedance mismatch with CVS :-)

The Debian X maintainers use Subversion to maintain their packaging.
Xorg upstream still uses CVS, although git seems to be the flavour of
the week ...

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