Re: [PATCH 0/2] stability for dual head

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On 06/03/2014 04:14 PM, David Mansfield wrote:
> Bump. I'll make it easy.  This is a multiple choice response form.
> Anyone reading this can respond with one letter so save time and effort.
> 
> a) "We're too busy with RHEL 7/paying clients, come back in a month/some
> timeframe"
> b) "There's an SEP field on these problems, everyone who understands
> that code has moved on"
> c) "Go away"
> d) "Oops, I've been meaning to get back to you but I keep forgetting and
> life is hectic..."
> e) "Didn't you hear? SPICE is dead."
> f) "Other." Please elaborate using the space provided below:

The first patch looks good (just adjusting the #if to disable the
print). I'll pick it up, thanks, you deserved a faster response.

No idea what SEP is.

> 
> 
> On 05/27/2014 10:49 AM, David Mansfield wrote:
>>
>> On 05/19/2014 10:01 AM, David Mansfield wrote:
>>> This patch series addresses two critical bugs that prevent dual-head
>>> from working in a linux-linux environment. (All testing done on F20
>>> fully updated as guest, host and client).
>>>
>>> We (myself and a colleague) have been using patched versions of qxl.ko
>>> and xorg-qxl for a week or so and these patches definitely solve the
>>> problems addressed by the invididual patches.
>>>
>>> Patches are against F20 package source.
>>>
>>> Please consider reviewing/accepting these patches without which dual
>>> head cannot be used(*) in linux.
>>>
>>> These patches or previous versions have been sent to the list but I
>>> have not received any feedback.
>>>
>>> (*) by coincidence, dual head with small-ish monitor sizes does work
>>> better on gnome3 than it does with other DE (ie. MATE or fluxbox) due
>>> simply to luck in the order that the monitors/surfaces ioctl are
>>> called, but not due to any design.
>>>
>>
>> I've opened/updated the freedesktop.org bugs with these two patches
>> and some commentary.  It would be helpful if the maintainers of the
>> respective code bases (qxl.ko and xorg-qxl) could comment on these two
>> patches or at least a "resend in one month - we're really busy" or
>> something.
>>
>> Bugs:
>>
>> Multiple monitors broken in desktops other than gnome3 :
>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78131
>>
>> xorg crashes due to assert() when a large "image" is created :
>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79317
>>
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