On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 02:30:11 +0000 Ken Moffat <zarniwh...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 09:53:49PM -0400, Andrew Warshall wrote:> On > Thu, 20 Mar 2014 00:35:01 +0000> > Hi-> > The versions are mostly > current. (I built basically the svn, and it> was within the last > month.) Cairo is 1.12.16. One thing that isn't> so current is > xorg; I basically built a straight 7.7 (as opposed to> the newer > versions in the book). So that's xorg-server 1.12.2. A quick google > suggested that was released in June 2012 ? If so,you are missing all > of the vulnerability fixes which came to lightaround July 2013 - as > well as all the various bug fixes throughoutxorg. We've recently been > reasonably good at keeping the xorg versionscurrent. Yes, there is > always a possibility of breakage with thelatest and greatest, but for > common video drivers it isreasonably-well tested. ĸen-- das eine Mal > als Tragödie, dieses Mal als Farce-- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-supportFAQ: > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.htmlUnsubscribe: See the > above information page > > Hi- Well, I just patched the xf86-video-ati driver, which was their recommended workaround. It seems to work so far, so maybe that was the issue. (Upgrading xorg-server would have required upgrading a great many other parts of xorg too, which I didn't want to do.) Thanks for the help, Andrew Warshall -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
