Slashdot is discussing "FC3: worthwhile or not ?"

Timothy Murphy tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Thu Nov 18 17:24:08 UTC 2004


On Thursday 18 November 2004 16:27, Nils Philippsen wrote:

> > I guess I'm not really convinced that sufficient time and effort
> > is devoted by the Fedora team to ironing out installation problems.
> > [My view is strengthened by the fact that
> > a simple patch to xorg-x11 posted over 6 months ago - not by me -
> > has still not been applied,
> > although this means that X will not run on my Sony Picturebook,
> > and I assume on most other Picturebooks too.
> > If you are interested you will find some info on this
> > at http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~tim/Picturebook/ .]
>
> Which Bugzilla number is this? The URL only gives a binary RPM and an
> xorg.conf, the only info I could draw from that is that the Pictureboook
> apparently has a display with 1024x480 pixels ;-).

Apologies. The (very small) patches can be found at
<<http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=591>.
(I've added that info to the README at the URL I gave -)
I made the xorg-x11 rpm I compiled available
in response to requests from Picturebook owners.

If you have any influence on the Xorg team,
please use it to get this patch into the xorg-x11 distribution,
and if possible into FC-3 too.
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Timothy Murphy  
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