On Sam, 2003-03-01 at 14:17, Charl P. Botha wrote: > On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 08:34:59PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > LY. It will completly lock the machine. This is a known problem. Charl > > > Botha has written a patch for this. Since it is still not included in the > > > XF86 cvs and is also missing in XFree86 4.3 according to > > > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00207.html> and my own > > > experience with 4.3, I would like to have the patches applied for the > > > Debian package xserver-xfree86. > > > > > > More information about this problem can be found at > > > <http://cpbotha.net/dri_resume.html>, patches can be found at > > > <http://cpbotha.net/files/dri_resume/>. > > > > The patch is pretty extensive; this means it may not apply cleanly given > > all the other patches I've made to the driver for Debian's packages. > > > > I may not have the patience do a lot of hand-merging, however, I will > > give this patch a shot. If it's too much trouble I'll let you know; > > in that event perhaps you can mail debian-x or some other mailing list > > and find someone with this hardware and willing to prepare a version of > > the patch for our packages. > > Another problem is that my patch makes crucial modifications to the DRM, > without which the Radeon XFree86 driver patches will have little or no > effect.
As long as it doesn't have a bad effect... -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
