Bug#645481: xserver-xorg: Endianness issues

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 08:48:37 +0100, Anton Ivanov wrote:

> Package: xserver-xorg
> Version: 1:7.5+8
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> Xorg still has some endianness issues.
> 
> How to reproduce:
> 
> Xterm from big endian client (Mac Linux) to small endian server (pc) 
> (or reverse).  Any desktop environment, try to switch keyboard 
> layouts. Example - undef xfce switch between Bulgarian and English 
> keyboard.
> 
> At best - does not work (xfce from panel)
> 
> At worst X on the xterm dies outright (xfce from kbd properties).
> 
> Same in KDE3/4.
> 
Please try to capture the X traffic for either:
- little endian client against big and little endian servers
- or big endian client against big and little endian servers
so we can compare where the swapping goes wrong?

xtrace may be helpful for this.

Cheers,
Julien