Bug#524280: Display broken beyond recognition after upgrade to 1:6.12.2-1

[Jacek Politowski]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 01:06:19PM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On 4/16/09, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 4/16/09, Jacek Politowski <jp at jp.pl.eu.org> wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 00:07 +0200, Jacek Politowski wrote:

>>>>>>> Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon
>>>>>>> Version: 1:6.12.2-1
>>>>>>> Severity: normal
>>>>>
>>>>>>> After recent upgrade (I believe) display got totally corrupted.
>>>>>  (...)
>>>>>>> I'm using AGP Radeon X800 GTO with HP LP2475w monitor, connected via DVI.
>>
(...)
>> Switching back to 6.9.0 with your current kernel/xserver/etc. fixes
>>  it?  How about 6.10.0 or 6.11.0 or 6.12.1?  It would be helpful to
>>  narrow down where the problem was introduced.

> Does the attached patch help?

Switching back to 6.9.0 was impossible due to dependency conflict, as
it provides 'xserver-xorg-video-2' and xserver-xorg-core explicitly
conflicts with 'xserver-xorg-video-2'.

Where to find 6.1{0,1}.0? I can't find it neither on
snapshot.debian.net nor on regular mirror (ftp.pl.debian.org).


Unfortunately your patch doesn't help either.


I installed under VirtualBox, on other machine, fresh Sid instance to
build xserver-xorg-video-radeon with your patch.

Then I did something like this:

$ apt-get source xserver-xorg-video-radeon
$ apt-get build-dep xserver-xorg-video-radeon

$ patch < debian524280.diff
### .diff and patched file in the same directory, patch applied cleanly

### added new revision in changelog

$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc
### built cleanly - xserver-xorg-video-radeon_6.12.2-1.0jp1_i386.deb

### copied package to my machine and installed:
$ sudo dpkg -i xserver-xorg-video-radeon_6.12.2-1.0jp1_i386.deb
### installed correctly
$ dpkg -s xserver-xorg-video-radeon
Version: 1:6.12.2-1.0jp1

### started GDM
$ sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start


Display still corrupted.

-- 
Jacek Politowski