Cairo 1.10 broken for nvidia users

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On 11/21/10 2:35 PM, Michal Varga wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-11-21 at 13:39 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>> Can anyone confirm this patch?  The patch can be downloaded from:
>>
>> http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/cairo/trunk/cairo-1.10.0-buggy_gradients.patch?op=dl&rev=100207&peg=100207&
>>
>> Joe
>>
> 
> Confirming the patch indeed fixes all cairo symptoms (patch itself
> doesn't apply cleanly, but consists of three lines total, so it's an
> easy edit). All performance and button rendering issues are fixed (which
> is pretty scary, by the way).
> 
> Also per the following thread, the regression seems to target
> specifically 256. and 260. series of nvidia drivers (well, any nvidia
> user with a modern graphics card anyway):
> 
> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20790
> 
> As the patch is already included (or being included) in most major linux
> distributions, I'd assume it doesn't break stuff for non-nvidia users,
> so we should probably include it too. Refs:
> 
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336696
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2010-September/007248.html
> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20790
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=649955

Committed.

Joe

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