Xorg ATI Rage-Mobility Bug

[doug at safeport.com]

Thank you for you quick response

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Eric Anholt wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 12:30, doug at safeport.com wrote:
> > Both Xorg and XFree86 4.4 have this problem. The card works in XFree86 4.3.
> >
> > The problem is reported in Xorg as Bug#: 1109, report 2004-08-17. It has been
> > fixed in XFree86 4.4.99.7, CHANGELOG #133.
> >
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>
> Unfortunately, due to the licensing we can't just pick up XFree86
> patches and shove them into x.org.  David Dawes, at least, has publicly
> stated that any work he does is covered by the new license unless
> explicitly stated otherwise (even if he doesn't add a license header),
> so people working on x.org have to tread very carefully when looking at
> things done in XFree86, to avoid contamination.

I understand completely

> Is http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=591 related?  If that
> patch helped you, it would be good to hear.

Part of my original question was how to figure out if I am picking up source
that has a includes a specific fix; or where to find xorg patches source or
otherwise. I shouldn't need a how-to, just a pointer to same 8)

I do not think my laptop and/or its card effect a large number of users, but I
am happy to test things. I just need a nudge on finding some info to get me
started.

>
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> Eric Anholt                                eta at lclark.edu
> http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/         anholt at FreeBSD.org
>

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