(temporary) patch for font corruption problem.

[Bernardo Innocenti]

This (still untested) RPM also includes the fix for bug #1853:

 http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=65071&name=xorg-x11-drv-amd-0.0-24.20070712.olpc2.i386.rpm


John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> Doing a build now.
> 
> On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 07:12 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
>> On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 00:12 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote:
>>> The enemy of the good is the perfect; we need to get people able to test
>>> better, and the current state of the driver is essentially unusable.
>>> The web browser on many pages is effectively unusable with the font
>>> problem. I'd really like to get a usable driver into a build ASAP, so
>>> the testing team can get beyond the broken display.
>>>
>>> Both the RH and Quanta testing team will be picking up a build in the
>>> next 24 hours; this is more than 3 people dedicated to testing; so a
>>> temporary band-aid so they can get beyond the current problem will help
>>> our testing greatly. They probably won't pick up another build to test
>>> for some number of days.
>>>
>>> If Adam's patch isn't ready, throwing Bernie's hack patch into the RPM
>>> to ensure it will be thrown away as soon as Adam's better fix will get
>>> us beyond the current need.  Dan's building such an RPM right now, which
>>> can be found at:
>>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=64410
>> More specifically, now that the job is done:
>>
>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=64412&name=xorg-x11-drv-amd-0.0-23.20070711.olpc2.i386.rpm
>>
>> Dan
>>
>>> It's fine with me if ajax's better patch goes in a day or two later....
>>>
>>> I don't just want to run NoAccel, because then we aren't exercise very
>>> much of the new driver for that much longer.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>                           - Jim
>>>
>>>
>>>
> 


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