Upsteam patch for kde-workspace

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Tue Apr 23 14:53:31 UTC 2013


Martin Kho wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> FYI: Users of Fedora 18+ that have a Radeon HD video card which uses the
> r600g driver may have experienced kwin crashes [1] at log in. These were
> caused by a newly added feature "msaa visuals" in Mesa-9.1 [2]. Fredrik
> Höglund (kwin developer) created a patch [3] that solved this issue for
> kde. If mesa upstream will do something in this respect is unclear to me.
> 
> I've tested the patch against kde-workspace-4.10.2-4.fc18.src.rpm and it
> worked fine.
> 
> It would be nice if a next build of kde-workspace could incorporate the
> patch.

It's integrated into kde-workspacae-4.10.2-6+ builds in koji,
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=13124

Unfortunately, can't stuff into kde repos yet, as there's some hardware 
problems on the primary host I'll have to sort out first.

-- rex



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