Bug#726002: xserver-xorg-video-mga: Dualheading using 1.6.2 segfaults
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Robert Jacobs wrote:
> I'm happy to count as a Tested-by, and as far as I can tell the patch
> 02_tentatively_unbreak_dual_head.diff looks sane to me. I'm
> unfortunately not very familiar with the Xorg low-level internals to
> do any kind of comparison to any other (if any) more-nearly maintained
> legacy driver.
Great. I contacted the patch author Andy (when I realized the patch
was not originally from Cyril) and I will post the patch for review on
xorg-devel. In the likely event there is no reaction to it, I'll apply
it and even think about a point release. Not sure why /me am doing
this, but I guess this is the beauty of open-source :) and I
appreciate the continued use of old hardware.
> What kind of testing is needed? Just simple "HEAD doesn't have obvious
> regressions on my hardware"? If so, I did test a very close variant to
> the patch that's in LP 1180986, and it mostly worked, but as I said, I
> got droppings on the second head.
What would be nice, especially if we would consider a point release,
is to have it tested against the latest xserver.
Mouse droppings, is this traces of the mouse pointer not being cleaned
up? Did dual head at one point work for you without such droppings? In
this case testing of older versions (of server and driver) can help to
spot the regression. Anyway, dual head with mouse droppings is better
than no dual head.
Cheers,
Tormod
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