From: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
To: Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: i810 only partially usable
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 11:07:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130924090749.GD13668@phenom.ffwll.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52406125.9070709@earthlink.net>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-24 9:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-23 0:45 i810 only partially usable Felix Miata
2013-09-23 8:22 ` Chris Wilson
2013-09-23 14:13 ` Felix Miata
2013-09-23 14:51 ` Chris Wilson
2013-09-23 15:41 ` Felix Miata
2013-09-24 9:07 ` Daniel Vetter [this message]
2013-09-24 14:44 ` Felix Miata
2013-10-04 23:32 ` Felix Miata
2013-10-08 4:06 ` Felix Miata
2013-10-08 20:02 ` Felix Miata
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