Re: xserver-xorg-video-savage: Changes to 'debian-unstable'

[Timo Aaltonen <tjaalton@cc.hut.fi>]

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, David Nusinow wrote:

> debian/changelog                           |   11 +++++++++++
> debian/patches/03_request_16bit_depth.diff |   13 +++++++++++++
> debian/patches/series                      |    1 +
> 3 files changed, 25 insertions(+)
>
> New commits:
> commit 8461f00b2320409eb4536392dd935b4a9e61087a
> Author: David Nusinow <dnusinow@debian.org>
> Date:   Thu Nov 22 00:06:38 2007 -0500
>
>    * Add 03_request_16bit_depth.diff
>      We set the default depth for savage chips to 16bpp in the xserver
>      debconfage. This patch has the driver request that depth from the
>      server during init. If the user doesn't override this depth, it should be
>      used by the server, thus allowing us to drop this special case from the
>      debconfage.

Works just fine on my Thinkpad T23. The reason why it was 16bpp in the 
first place was, that if you used 24bpp and after one suspend-resume cycle 
restart the server, the screen would be corrupt (also console).
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/21107)

But, I just tried it with the new server/driver, and 24bpp works ok :) So 
this change might not be needed anymore \o/
I need to try it on the T21&T22  that I have piled on my desk..

t