X for i810 video is still not working with xorg-x11-6.7.99.902-6

[Mike A. Harris]

Mike Klinke wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 August 2004 21:57, Jim Cornette wrote:
> 
>>Since X is down for those with the 810 or 815 version of video
>>cards, I have been copying the driver from the earlier X version
>>that is on the FC3T1 CD to the below.
>>
>>/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/i815_drv.o
>>
>>When X is installed and is does not come up, I then replace the
>>
>>/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/i810_drv.o
>>
>>file with the working driver, in order to get my X up and
>>running.
>>
>>Anyway, on the newer installations, the older i810_dvr.o driver
>>is replaced with the latest version. I therefore test out the
>>newest driver and find that it failed.
>>
>>This is interesting to me, except the below bug is said to be
>>checked into CVS.
>>
>>https://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1084 (and 1086)
>>
>>How soon will this fix take to get incorporated into the next
>>release of X?
>>
>>Jim
> 
> 
> Jim, I can confirm that this is still broken with the xorg*902-6 
> rpm's on my system too. I'd been waiting for the changed binaries 
> but it looks like the patch may not have been added yet to the 
> Fedora distribution.

Correct, I've been intentionally avoiding applying patches that will 
then be removed a day or so later when we update to the latest CVS tag.

This way it gets fixed once in the place that matters (upstream) and we 
can just update to that on a relative schedule (relative to the RC 
releases).  The only patches I'm applying currently, are things that 
cause build failures, or are really serious and need fixing right away 
or the tree can't be composed.  This minimizes maintenance overhead, and 
allows more bugs to get fixed upstream, and more X.Org CVS matrix 
testing, and modularization feature work to be done.

The best thing for people testing the new X.Org out to do, is to report 
all non-rpm-packaging related bugs to X.Org bugzilla, and then follow up 
with X.Org developers in X.Org bugzilla (including myself).  Once 
something is fixed in CVS, it's safe to assume it will be in rawhide 
within 1-7 days roughly.

HTH