On Sunday 17 October 2004 13:54, Jim Cornette wrote: > > X stopped working properly under FC2 on my Sony Picturebook (C1VFK) - > > it was impossible to run with bpp greater than 8. > > > > But I recently found that there is a tiny patch > > which completely solves this problem at > > <http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=591> > Did this error happen after the -5 to -9 version change to xorg-x11? Or > was this a problem before the very latest upgrade for FC2? X has never worked on the C1 Picturebook under FC2 - ie since the change from XFree86 to Xorg. Many people have commented on this. > I was surprised to see an upgrade for xorg-x11 for FC2. Anyway, the > latest version for xorg-x11 is now xorg-x11-6.8.1-6 and the changelog's > most recent date was October 12th. (development repo) That is the version I applied the patch to. (I also applied it earlier to the previous version.) > Anyway, maybe filing a bug in Fedora bugzilla, which mentions to the > freedesk.org patch and location, against FC2 might ensure the patch is > applied to FC2. I can't do that at the moment - I appear to have forgotten my bugzilla password, and when I try to reset it I am told a "token" has been sent to me by email, but if so it never arrives. (I've tried 3 or 4 times.) But I've written to some of the people mentioned in the source Changelog in connection with the ATI driver, so hopefully one of them will do the necessary. > Keeping X up and running is a bit messy for some of the open-source > drivers lately. The i810 driver is a real challenge lately. Having glanced at the sources, I can well believe that! -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
