Mesa needs an update?

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2013-08-01 at 20:21 +0800, Morgan Howe wrote:
> After upgrading from F18 to F19 using fedup, I was getting a segfault
> starting Xorg[1]. It turns out my case seemed almost identical to
> another case[2], but since they seemed to be from separate drivers I
> filed a separate bug. The catalyst driver also did not work for me,
> but for an entirely different reason. (My ASUS laptop has a Radeon HD
> 7730M) I didn't have time to look into it further at that point, so I
> just filed the bug and did weekly yum upgrades, hoping a package would
> get fixed or bumped that would fix my problem. As of today, that still
> had not happened and no one had responded to my bug report. Having a
> bit of free time, I decided to look into it. Since the stack trace
> seemed to indicate the mesa-dri-drivers were at fault (I accidentally
> forgot the stack trace in the bug report, but it is almost identical
> to that in [2], replacing sis_drv with radeon_dri), I rebuilt the
> latest from git and tried that. After replacing the old version with
> the newly built radeon_dri.so, I was able to boot into X without a
> problem.
> 
> 
> The latest mesa in the repos still does not solve this problem, so I
> just wanted to bring it to the maintainer's attention that an update
> for this package should probably be expedited.

We don't simply bump Mesa to bleeding-edge git on stable releases. It'll
fix your bug, sure, but it could just as well break 2x as many things as
it fixes...

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