[Xorg-driver-geode] last call for testing: X.org Geode 2.11.9 release candidate

[Martin-Éric Racine]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Mart Raudsepp <leio at gentoo.org> wrote:
> On L, 2010-08-14 at 11:32 +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> As recently announced, we now have a release candidate for the X.org
>> Geode 2.11.9 video driver. [1] Please test
>> it extensively and immediately report any significant regression
>> directly into the X.org Bugzilla. [2] If nothing major gets reported
>> during this weekend, we'll release what we currently have in GIT by
>> Monday morning.
>
> Looks like the rotation code isn't quite perfect yet.
>
> Before doing any rotation:
>
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~leio/xorg/geode-before-rotation-20100816.png
>
> After rotating to inverted mode, and then (importantly) back to normal
> mode:
>
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~leio/xorg/geode-after-rotation-20100816.png
>
> Notice all icon images missing again, various glyphs turned to vertical
> lines and a broken openbox panel black/grey gradient on the bottom.
>
> It seems that right after the rotation patch at commit 8a61ef8f, the
> problem is already present.
>
> I would consider this a release blocker for a while. OTOH, rotation
> didn't work at all with xserver-1.7+ before, so I guess it depends on
> how quick we can find a solution for this, and if xserver-1.6 (where
> rotation worked before) is affected by this.

Thanks for reporting this.

Since OLPC are the main user for this feature, I would have
appreciated receiving feedback from them earlier than this.

Personally, given how rotation has already been broken for quite some
time, I don't consider this breakage as a good enough reason to avoid
releasing as planned. Instead, I would hope that our AMD developers
could be sent their own XO-1 to work with, along with a URL to
instructions on how to build our driver for the OLPC and on how to
install it onto the laptop's filesystem. I would also hope to see
continuous feedback from the OLPC developer community towards ensuring
that our driver keeps on working on the XO-1.

Martin-Éric