On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:41:25AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2013-09-23 15:51 (GMT+0100) Chris Wilson composed: > > >On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:13:02AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > > >>Did Adam already fix this? Will you be including this among your > >>next submits? Do I need to file a bug first? > > >You have reported the bug, I've sent the patch onwards. It would be most > >useful if you could test it, but I'm optimistic that Adam would be able > >to review it without. > > :-) > > >>...I just test what > >>others package, and get frustrated by comments like this one: > >>https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66462#c10 > > >I am suggesting that there is a large known change in behaviour with > >recent Xservers which is very likely to impact upon you. I am sorry you > >find our requests for feedback frustrating, we too find it frustrating > >not to be in a position to test ideas and fixes ourselves, and very much > >rely on your good selves to both report issues and help us diagnose them. > > The frustration is not the comment itself, but the obstacle in > needing to build a binary to be able to test the efficacy of the > patch. Might having a Gentoo installation facilitate such tests by > non-programmers like me who normally use a dpkg or rpm distro and > don't how to use developer tools? Hopping onto your distro channel and begging the X package maintainers for a custom build usually helps. Otherwise you'll have a good excuse to jump into creating your own packages - usually downloading the sources, patching them and rebuilding a custom rpm isn't too onerous a journey. -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
