Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Reading reports about the PPC version of the g-i, it came to my mind an 
> old, yet unsolved, bug [1] that caused crashes on PPC boxes with some 
> particular grapic cards installed.
> No one ever investigated deeply enough to state if that was related to 
> DFB 0.9.22 or to the DFB backend contained in GTKDFB 2.0.9 as, AFAIK, no 
> one ever tried to run a recent DFB backend togheter with DFB >=0.9.24 on 
> a PPC box.
> As some PPC users may experience annoying crashes, i suggest to disable 
> DFB's hardware acceleration by default, at least until we switch to a 
> newer stack of GTKDFB+Cairo+DFB libraries.

IIRC it was the Matrox driver or the ATI Rage128, which has been
reworked since 0.9.24.

-- 
Best regards,
   Denis Oliver Kropp

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