On 2010/08/24 20:29, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > > > This seems to be a bug intruduced with xorg 7.5 with this commit: > > > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=91f73b79b7ae64e5b846d1efeb470bb61a913720 > > > > as reported here: > > > > http://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=971 > > > > quick fix (but wrong) here: > > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg05439.html > > > > > > > > At least that's my understanding. > > > > I use the quick and wrong fix and r_gamma works again. > > > > > > Checking the bug report there is also (comment 10) a patch for SDL > > > to support xrandr gamma ramps. (Note X extensions are by no means > > > promised, relying on them for functionality means this happens if the > > > one you depend on becomes deprecated). Does that also work for you? > > > > > > -0- > > > -- > > > It is not true that life is one damn thing after another -- it's one > > > damn thing over and over. > > > -- Edna St. Vincent Millay > > > > That patch works for me. > > So no need for the quick and wrong fix. > > I split the comment-10 patch into something that ports(7) can eat. > > > > Alf > > > > > I don't follow. please explain why *this port* needs SDL to have > patches. or does it affect other ports too? there are many ports > that use SDL. >
Grepping over a (couple-of-months-old) unpacked ports src, the other ports using SDL that are in our tree don't use r_gamma. But from reading the other comments in the bug, if anything else was to start using it, it looks like they would need this patch too.
