Bug#726002: xserver-xorg-video-mga: Dualheading using 1.6.2 segfaults

2013-10-18 Thread Robert Jacobs
Tormod Volden writes: > On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 1:34 AM, Robert Jacobs wrote: > > Tormod Volden writes: > >> Mouse droppings, is this traces of the mouse pointer not being cleaned > >> up? Did dual head at one point work for you without such droppings? In > >> this case testing of older versions (o

Bug#726002: xserver-xorg-video-mga: Dualheading using 1.6.2 segfaults

2013-10-17 Thread Robert Jacobs
Tormod Volden writes: > On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Robert Jacobs wrote: > > What kind of testing is needed? Just simple "HEAD doesn't have obvious > > regressions on my hardware"? If so, I did test a very close variant to > > the patch that's in LP 1180986, and it mostly worked, but as I said

Bug#726002: xserver-xorg-video-mga: Dualheading using 1.6.2 segfaults

2013-10-17 Thread Tormod Volden
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Robert Jacobs wrote: > I'm happy to count as a Tested-by, and as far as I can tell the patch > 02_tentatively_unbreak_dual_head.diff looks sane to me. I'm > unfortunately not very familiar with the Xorg low-level internals to > do any kind of comparison to any other

Bug#726002: xserver-xorg-video-mga: Dualheading using 1.6.2 segfaults

2013-10-17 Thread Robert Jacobs
Tormod Volden writes: > >> And ideally Cyril's 02-* dualhead patch should go upstream, so > >> review of that would be welcome too. > > > > I'm not certain what meets upstream's standards? It's sitting > > ineffectively at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18472 ; > > I assume the proble

Bug#726002: xserver-xorg-video-mga: Dualheading using 1.6.2 segfaults

2013-10-16 Thread Tormod Volden
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 5:34 AM, Robert Jacobs wrote: > The "right" solution is for someone to modernize the 1.9.100 branch > from six years ago, and give the MGA driver EXA support. But IIRC > Brice Goglin had a number of problems that showed up in that > branch. (e.g. debian 457502, 452223, 48876

Bug#726002: xserver-xorg-video-mga: Dualheading using 1.6.2 segfaults

2013-10-16 Thread Robert Jacobs
Tormod Volden writes: > On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 2:25 AM, Robert Jacobs wrote: > > The newest release of xorg removes xaa.h and xaalocal.h (and, indeed all of > > XAA). This means that the driver is built without defining HAVE_XAA_H, > > which in turn fails to compile the line in mga_storm.c:mgaAcce

Bug#726002: xserver-xorg-video-mga: Dualheading using 1.6.2 segfaults

2013-10-15 Thread Tormod Volden
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 2:25 AM, Robert Jacobs wrote: > The newest release of xorg removes xaa.h and xaalocal.h (and, indeed all of > XAA). This means that the driver is built without defining HAVE_XAA_H, > which in turn fails to compile the line in mga_storm.c:mgaAccelInit that > ever fills the va