> Bug opened on Xorg. Problem is -- at Xorg, no one gives a damn. Panayiotis Karabassis submitted it, and have not received any proper review or even any sort of formal accepted/declined reply about the patch. That was one year ago. So another year of hassle with three hour compiles of Xorg for every end user with this problem. OK, there might be very few users of this particular hardware. Out of them maybe 2 or 3 people are Xorg developers. And they are newbie ones, at that. It is very easy for Debian and Xorg maintainers to ignore the issue -- and we can't do anything about it. Other than maybe paying cash -- hey everyone, how about, I dunno, a Kickstarter campaign? to get the Debian MIPS Xorg patched to operate on SiliconMotion? Then we could find one of these hard-working maintainers and pay them to add that single line into that quilt file or a do some git pull to apply the already prepared patch that solves an actual problem. If that's the only way to get this done. I do not have a good solution to resolving this bug, I just think no one would've been harmed much, and people would be very thankful, if this would simply included into Debian, and that should've been done a long time ago. Free software sometimes works out so well. -- With respect, Roman
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