On Thu, 2013-08-01 at 20:21 +0800, Morgan Howe wrote: > After upgrading from F18 to F19 using fedup, I was getting a segfault > starting Xorg[1]. It turns out my case seemed almost identical to > another case[2], but since they seemed to be from separate drivers I > filed a separate bug. The catalyst driver also did not work for me, > but for an entirely different reason. (My ASUS laptop has a Radeon HD > 7730M) I didn't have time to look into it further at that point, so I > just filed the bug and did weekly yum upgrades, hoping a package would > get fixed or bumped that would fix my problem. As of today, that still > had not happened and no one had responded to my bug report. Having a > bit of free time, I decided to look into it. Since the stack trace > seemed to indicate the mesa-dri-drivers were at fault (I accidentally > forgot the stack trace in the bug report, but it is almost identical > to that in [2], replacing sis_drv with radeon_dri), I rebuilt the > latest from git and tried that. After replacing the old version with > the newly built radeon_dri.so, I was able to boot into X without a > problem. > > > The latest mesa in the repos still does not solve this problem, so I > just wanted to bring it to the maintainer's attention that an update > for this package should probably be expedited. We don't simply bump Mesa to bleeding-edge git on stable releases. It'll fix your bug, sure, but it could just as well break 2x as many things as it fixes... -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
