On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 10:00 +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 03:37:35PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > > Known bug in xorg 6.9, try to go back to 6.8 if you can. > > > I don't know if 7.0 is ready or not (it is in experimental > > > but not yet built for PPC). > > > > I've fixed a lot of those problems in X.org CVS, I don't know if distro > > picked them up yet, though you'll need 7.0 to run the fixed radeon > > driver. > > This is not yet fixed in debian though, so right now we don't have a working X > in those cases. > > Dear X team, could you maybe comment on when this fix will be added to the > modular X tree, at least in the experimental version ?
The patch is included in xserver-xorg-video-ati SVN but hasn't been uploaded to experimental yet. Ironically, it's incorrectly called 'ppc_fix.diff'. > I would rather it be backported to 6.9 asap, since i am not sure that > 7.0 is installable fully right now, but i may be wrong. First we need to verify that it fixes the issues with newer PowerBooks, then we can worry about backporting. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
