Drew Parsons wrote: > On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 15:06 -0500, Andrew J. Barr wrote: >> On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 19:20 +0000, Alan Chandler wrote: >>> About a month ago there was a discussion on the list about a bug which >>> caused the i810 driver to do a hard lockup whilst displaying video. The >>> fix made it into the git head. >> Are you talking about the textured video hang? This would affect i915 >> and later. >> >>> I don't think it has yet made it through to debian unstable, so I >>> thought I would ask here if there are any unofficial repositories that >>> might have a prebuilt version (for 386/686). >> This _should_ do the trick: >> >> http://www.oakcourt.dyndns.org/apt/pool/main/x/xserver-xorg-video-i810/xserver-xorg-video-i810_1.7.2-1_i386.deb >> >> Don't use anything else in the archive...it's unmaintained and probably >> lots of them are broken. > > Unless this one has the lockup patch applied on top of 1.7.2, it is > already in Debian (in etch, even) but I believe does not contain the > lockup fix. The problem is logged in bug #5774 [1]. > > Unfortunately since Debian is in freeze waiting for the release of etch > with xserver 1.1.1 (X11R7.1) we can't put the fixed git driver into > Debian just yet (it needs xserver 1.2 or X11R7.2). Sounds like we > better try applying the patch [2] given in the bug log, git commit > e065324661ad08b3b359136f48090232f6138959 22 Nov 2006. CC:ing Debian X > for this purpose. > > We have started loading X11R7.2 into Debian experimental but have not > got to the drivers yet. Once etch is released (soon!) we will be free > to bring the new versions into unstable. > > Drew > > [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5774 > [2] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=7727
Are you saying that [2] has to be applied *on top* of 1.7.2? >From what I can tell, it is already in 1.7.2 - certainly patch seemed to think it was already applied and patch -R applies it cleanly! Am I missing something? Col. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
