Re: X kills my powerbook
- To: Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>
- Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>, Gabriel Paubert <paubert@iram.es>, Bruce Richardson <itsbruce@uklinux.net>, debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org, debian-x@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: X kills my powerbook
- From: David Nusinow <david_nusinow@verizon.net>
- Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 20:50:49 -0500
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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.
I'm beginning to think that it's better to just do a snapshot of the radeon
driver from HEAD. Ben's done a ton of fixes and I want to make sure I get
them all. Plus, if the 7.1 timeline is to be believed, we'll be getting
something similar as a real release soon enough. Thoughts from people more
involved with upstream than me?
- David Nusinow
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