On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 10:45:36PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > > For now, this is just a heads-up that it seems to break the > perspective control in the gimp. It's taken me 3 days to pin the > blame here, I'm still not entirely convinced (for one thing, > rendering of the gimp windows was horribly slow, and now that I've > reverted this patch it still seems slow). Comments welcome. > In fact, I was wrong. Among the other upgrades were the xorg server and the xf86-video-ati driver. With those, xorg was rock solid (unlike the previous versions on my old r100/r200-ish cards).
I've now reverted to a backup from the day I last edited photos without problems. Sure enough, xorg crashed (probably in a screensaver) within 15 minutes, but the perspective control worked fine. I've now confirmed that the expat fixes-3 patch is working OK (fixes-2 can give problems with perl packages), will commit that soon. Also, the xorg-server update seems fine. The problem appears when I upgrade the ati driver (either to 6.13.2, or to current git). That is "counter intuitative" - it's the mouse dragging on a control on the screen which stops working. Possibly, there is an increased version requirement for something else. At the moment, I need to do the remaining updates for my desktop, then I'll start bisecting. Perhaps I should just cut my losses and get newer hardware. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
