rawhide report: 20060405 changes

[Ivan Gyurdiev]

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> xorg-x11-server-1.0.99.2-1
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> * Tue Apr 04 2006 Kristian Høgsberg <krh at redhat.com> 1.0.99.2-1
> - Update to 1.0.99.2 snapshot and go back to using mesa-source package.
> - Drop xorg-server-1.0.99-composite-visibility.patch.
> - Drop xorg-server-1.0.1-backtrace.patch.
> - Drop xorg-server-0.99.3-rgb.txt-dix-config-fix.patch.
> - Add xorg-server-1.0.99.2-spiffiffity.patch.
>
> * Thu Mar 23 2006 Kristian Høgsberg <krh at redhat.com>
> - Pass --with-dri-driver-path so we're sure to point it to the right path.
>
> * Wed Mar 22 2006 Soren Sandmann <sandmann at redhat.com> 1.0.99.1-2
> - Add xorg-server-1.0.99-composite-visibility.patch to get rid of flashing
>   titlebars in compositing metacity.
>   
Crashes the closed Nvidia driver for me, and *that* is really bad, since 
it's the only driver I can use, there is no other functional graphics 
driver on my computer. I tried fbdev ("does not support EGA/VGA 
planes"), vesa (graphics corruption), vga (8-bit depth max, totally 
unusable), and of course nv, which has been broken since blocker bug 
#182396, which nobody has looked at yet.

Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/Xorg (xf86SigHandler + 0x82)
1: /lib64/libc.so.6

Hardware: x86_64, Nvidia GeForce 6800 GS 256
Software: Fedora Core/Extras/Livna Rawhide

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It did force me to find a workable non-nvidia solution, however. It 
seems that doing: modprobe vga16fb, and then running the nv driver makes 
it work (until I restart X, at which point graphics get corrupted 
again). I also tried fbdev in between, maybe that matters.