Tim (abour replacing libvgahw.a): >> Thanks, that did the trick for me. I copied the file from a Fedora Core >> 3 Linux system I have installed, and all's working smoothly (as far as I >> can tell). Jim Cornette: > Replacing libvgahw.a is all that is needed right now. There is a version > of xorg-x11 that has a fix (compiled w/ a debugged/later version of > GCC4). The upcoming version worked fine on my Intel 815 w/ o the need to > change the file. Looking at the thread on the bugzilla previously mentioned, it seems that it only works for some people, and I was surprised at how long ago this problem started (around a couple of months). > From Kristian Høgsberg, comment #153 in bug 161242. > > I've updated the RPMs to disable the gcc miscompilation workaround, since > gcc-4.0.1-4 now has a fix for the problem. xorg-x11-6.8.2-45 should be in > rawhide soon, in the meantime I've put up -45 RPMs built with the new gcc here: > > http://people.redhat.com/krh/xorg-x11-6.8.2-45/ > > Please give them a try so we can see if the gcc fix works as intended. Thanks! It'll be a while before I can try that. I'm on dial-up, and updating xorg is quite a bit of a chore that way. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
