ATI bug - why is patch not applied?

[Timothy Murphy]

On Sunday 17 October 2004 01:54, Vladimir Dergachev wrote:

> >>> There is a bug in the ati driver which prevents me (and others)
> >>> with an ATI Rage Mobility "card" on the Sony Picturebook
> >>> (C1VFK in my case) from running X in more than 8bpp .
> >>>
> >>> A patch was submitted almost 6 months ago
> >>> <http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=591>
> >>> but  does not seem to have been applied,
> >>> although the bugzilla says the issue is resolved.

> yum update - which version of Xorg does it download ?

xorg-x11-6.8.1-6.rpm 

> It looks like the source that yum downloads are not from recent CVS,
> otherwise the patch would not apply cleanly.

I didn't try the CVS - I'm not really a tester,
I just desperately wanted X to work on my Picturebook -
which it does now - and followed advice to try FC3-test2.

> > I don't understand why anyone would want to apply the last patch but one.
>
> If, for example, the previous patch was applied before the newer one
> appeared.

I don't think that can be the case here though -
the two patches are almost 6 months old,
and if as you say they are incompatible
then the earlier patch must have been applied very recently,
since I am able to apply the second.

However, that is really beside the point..

Is there anyone I could write to,
to ask them please to apply the second patch in FC3,
for the sake of the fairly numerous Picturebook users?

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