On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 17:24 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > On Thursday 18 November 2004 16:27, Nils Philippsen wrote: > > > > I guess I'm not really convinced that sufficient time and effort > > > is devoted by the Fedora team to ironing out installation problems. > > > [My view is strengthened by the fact that > > > a simple patch to xorg-x11 posted over 6 months ago - not by me - > > > has still not been applied, > > > although this means that X will not run on my Sony Picturebook, > > > and I assume on most other Picturebooks too. > > > If you are interested you will find some info on this > > > at http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~tim/Picturebook/ .] > > > > Which Bugzilla number is this? The URL only gives a binary RPM and an > > xorg.conf, the only info I could draw from that is that the Pictureboook > > apparently has a display with 1024x480 pixels ;-). > > Apologies. The (very small) patches can be found at > <<http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=591>. > (I've added that info to the README at the URL I gave -) > I made the xorg-x11 rpm I compiled available > in response to requests from Picturebook owners. > > If you have any influence on the Xorg team, Well, I don't (not being an X maintainer and such)... > please use it to get this patch into the xorg-x11 distribution, > and if possible into FC-3 too. Please open a bugzilla entry at bugzilla.redhat.com against the Fedora Core product and the xorg-x11 component, referencing the "foreign" bugzilla entry. Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Red Hat / nphilipp@xxxxxxxxxx "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- B. Franklin, 1759 PGP fingerprint: C4A8 9474 5C4C ADE3 2B8F 656D 47D8 9B65 6951 3011
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