Bug#446123: bugfix for endianness?

2008-01-14 Thread Adam Bartley
You're a genius. Gnome 2.20 had somehow switched out of the compositing cursor, which was probaly why I had suddenly noticed the change. When I changed to an argb compositing one - problem solved. I agere with what you are saying about not holding back the RandR functionality. Sometimes there is

Bug#446123: bugfix for endianness?

2008-01-12 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 20:10 +, Adam Bartley wrote: Ok, I can see why that is good coding practice on one level, but on the other hand a piece of code has been out in January 2008 which had been shown to be faulty months before in 2007. Maybe it should have been held out of circulation

Bug#446123: bugfix for endianness?

2008-01-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 17:52 +, Adam Bartley wrote: I noticed on the freedesktop.org bugerport that a fix for this problem was *not* going to be released. is this true? Yes, because it's not a 'fix' but two hacks which together happen to work. Nobody including the author(s) of the broken

Bug#446123: bugfix for endianness?

2008-01-11 Thread Adam Bartley
Ok, I can see why that is good coding practice on one level, but on the other hand a piece of code has been out in January 2008 which had been shown to be faulty months before in 2007. Maybe it should have been held out of circulation until the authors can come up with a solution? On Jan 11, 2008

Bug#446123: bugfix for endianness?

2008-01-11 Thread Adam Bartley
I noticed on the freedesktop.org bugerport that a fix for this problem was *not* going to be released. is this true? I am not the world's most confident builder/compiler, and don't fancy trying to build these packages from source, after patching same, if help is around the corner. Regards, Adam