[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Denis Oliver Kropp wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Ok, one more reason to update g-i libraries.
> Dennis, would you suggest to switch directly from 0.9.22 to 0.9.25.1, 
> skipping 0.9.24 ? would that give better stability to the g-i ?

Yes, there have been lots of driver updates.

-- 
Best regards,
   Denis Oliver Kropp

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