[Xorg-driver-geode] Startup crash on OLPC.

Chris Ball cjb at laptop.org
Sun Feb 15 09:28:01 PST 2009


Hi Mart,

   > Not sure when that happens, as it didn't in the testing for the bug
   > fix on a full GNOME, but yes, the fix is obvious :)

Yes, I noticed that GNOME worked okay but that we crash before drawing
anything when booting into Sugar, the OLPC desktop.  Since the first
thing we draw there is our ARGB cursor, that might be it.

   > Note that this potential crasher is not in any release, so a
   > release makes sense if there is some other value in making one. For
   > example for the not often encountered rendering bug this change in
   > overall fixes.

Thanks, you're right.

   > Would be nice to have a fix for the crasher introduced with the
   > RANDR 1.2 porting that happens when DDC pins are in serial port
   > mode.  Used to just fall back to not doing DDC.

   > Not mentioning the rest of bug #15700 :) (oops, just mentioned it)

Will read up on these, thanks.  :)

- Chris.
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