possible progress on XO-1 camera issues

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Thu Dec 17 11:34:47 EST 2009


On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 15:11 +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:
>> And we'll see where we need to go from there.
>
> If the problem appears to be in the geode driver, one thing you might
> consider doing is going back to the version that was shipped in 8.2.
>
> After 8.2, a new release was made with various improvements and new
> functionality but this isn't the first time that I've suspected
> regressions caused from that work.
>
> Going back to the old version of the driver is not trivial -- it will
> likely require adapting the old code to the new X.org internal graphics
> drivers APIs -- but probably an easy job for any experienced programmer.

Yes I was aware of the changes. I would hope it might be easier for
someone to fix the bug :-)

Peter



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