[Please could you use line-wrap in your mails? They're very difficult to read this way in my mail client ...]
On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 12:38:05PM +0100, o jordan wrote: > I am keen too to get proper fixes and that is why bugs have been > raised against all the appropriate packages. However, a lot of the > problems are long term ones, for example > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/725580 . Some > though are recent e.g. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/1058641 > . The problems are not PowerPC specific, but the difference is > non-PowerPC hardware has better fallback options, for example the vesa > or proprietary drivers. Neither of these things are available on > PowerPC. My proposal is just to create a useable fallback option, > something that isn't automatically available at the moment on PowerPC > for some nouveau users. I'm sorry. I know you're trying to get this fixed and I'm sympathetic. But I don't want to end up in a position where I break something else as a result, and I'm simply not willing to be held responsible for that since this is not a field I understand well. I'm not asking that you get the kernel or X teams to apply a proper fix, necessarily. All I'm asking is that you get somebody from those teams to ack the proposed changes to the boot menu; that way I can have some confidence that they won't cause some other problem that I have no way to predict. Get a member of the kernel or X teams to sign off on a proposed boot menu change, and I'll apply it. It would help if this could be as brief as possible - while I appreciate that you've gone to a lot of effort to provide many bug references, I'm afraid I simply don't have time to read through lots of bugs on linux and xserver-xorg-*, given that this is not my field and so it takes a lot of energy to understand long back-and-forth threads! The longer the mails, the less likely I am to manage to absorb anything beyond the third paragraph or so, given how much I have to do before the 12.10 release. I think this may go for the other developers in question - you really need to be as concise as you can. I'm afraid I am finding the long e-mails on many different but related subjects frustrating and impossible to absorb properly. > On previous versions of *Ubuntu I believe you could still use ubiquity > in 16 colours. Now it doesn't even work in 256 colours > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1040544 . > Presumably the problem is in whatever widgety thing it uses. Any problem with this is certainly in some underlying toolkit and should almost certainly not be assigned to ubiquity. > I think you could replicate the problem on non-PowerPC hardware by > forcing a 8 bit colour depth. This would be a good thing for somebody to test directly, then. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[email protected]] -- Ubuntu-x mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-x
