Re: 7.1 protos up-to-date in experimental - ready for unstable?
On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 23:23 +1000, Drew Parsons wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 10:53 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 14:37 +1000, Drew Parsons wrote:
> > >
> > > If we're happy to live without xf86rushproto, then can we now bring the
> > > outstanding experimental proto packages across to unstable?
> >
> > Not without dealing with at least one issue, I think: Anyone remember
> > what happened when David accidentally uploaded packages built against
> > x11proto-fixes-dev 4.0, then people tried running the binaries against
> > libxfixes3 1:3.0.x? I think the x11proto-fixes-dev Conflicts:
> > libxfixes-dev probably needs bumping to (<< 1:4.0) or similar, etc.
>
> Oh OK. You're saying that there are packages which will use the new
> xfixes4 symbols if they're available (according to x11proto-fixes-dev),
> but otherwise compile fine without under xfixes3? I had been assuming
> that the only thing using the new symbols was the new libraries and
> xserver, so I assumed this wouldn't be a problem. Can you remember
> which package exactly was the troublemaker?
Unfortunately, I don't. Maybe it was
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6786 or something like
that.
> If libraries need to be strictly synced with their protos, [...]
Note that I'm not sure this applies to any other proto/lib pair, it
might be strictly Xfixes.
> I followed Daniel's nice suggestion and built i810 1.6.1. I hadn't
> bothered earlier since I knew one of the fixes we need the 7.1 xserver
> for is to get 3d acceleration working (and to get that we need mesa
> 6.5). But apart from that, 1.6.1 seems to be working fine. 3d
> acceleration is still broken (just as it's broken under current 1.5.1),
> giving "ERROR! sizeof(I830DRIRec) does not match passed size from
> device driver", but otherwise the driver is happy.
To fix that, you should only need libgl1-mesa-dri from experimental, the
server version shouldn't matter.
> I can therefore suggest upgrading xserver-xorg-video-i810 immediately to
> 1.6.1 on account of the fixes to power management (I understand it fixes
> a freeze which occurs occasionally after a suspend-resume cycle).
You could do it yourself? :)
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