On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 12:15:42AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > Mike Campbell wrote: > > I've removed my previously working radeon 9100 and put the old elsa gloria > > back in for now because of hard lockups with or without dri. > > At first, only dri was causing lockups, but now xorg 7 locks up with or > > without dri.
> > Hopefully this will be resolved soon; i'm starting to get worried about the > > state of Alpha ports: how long will we have a broken libc?, freebsd > > dropping alpha in 7.x, a lot less traffic on this list than there used to > > be... among other issues. > I share all of these concerns. I'm beginning to wonder just how many of > us are left... I've been posting here on the assumption the problems > I'm seeing are Alpha-specific. There's an implicit assumption that the > developers who maintain Alpha ports for Debian are at least lurking in > the background. As far as helping ourselves, I suspect the odds would > improve with judicious crossposting, but *where*? The libc and Xorg > lists are high-traffic, and at least in the case of libc, the Alpha- > specific problems with LinuxThreads are known and not going to be fixed > (per Ulrich Drepper -- gotta wonder if the problems would be allowed to > persist if they affected x86). Ulrich Drepper isn't the glibc maintainer for Debian. If you want your Debian glibc fixed, the place to look is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Likewise, if the X problems are believed to be fixed in Xorg 7.1, it would be a good idea to actually test this and report to debian-x precisely what does or doesn't work in 7.1 vs. 7.0, including as much specifics as possible about the particular bit of X that fixes the problem. Currently the XSF is targetting Xorg 7.1 for etch, but if it happens that there are alpha-specific bugs *not* fixed in 7.1, waiting until 7.1 is in unstable probably doesn't leave much time for tracking down other big bugs before release. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
