Bug#538637: defect in binary xserver-xorg-core package disables compositing with kwin in KDE 4.2

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Matthias Liertzer wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-core
> Version: 2:1.6.2-1
> Severity: important
>
> The xserver-xorg-core_1.6.2-1 as downloaded from official debian mirrors can not run the
> kwin 4.2 windows manager(latest version in unstable) with compositing enabled.
>
> After examining the xserver and compiling it various times myself, I noticed that
> that this has to be a bug in the binary package in debian. In order to obtain a bug free
> xserver-xorg-core package, all I had to do was building the debian package myself.
>
> i.e. 
> apt-get source -b xserver-xorg-core
> dpkg -i xserver-xorg-core_1.5.1-1_amd64.deb
>
> Therefore something must have gone wrong during packaging of the system.
>
> Others experienced the same problem and misjudged it for a xserver/driver problem:
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22907
>   

Could you send the list of version of packages that you have installed
for each build-depends of the server?

Was your unstable totally uptodate when you rebuilt the package?

Also it would be nice to know if this problem only occurs on amd64 (I
uploaded the package for i386)

Thanks
Brice