From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Vetter Subject: Re: i810 only partially usable Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 11:07:49 +0200 Message-ID: <20130924090749.GD13668@phenom.ffwll.local> References: <523F8F45.6080305@earthlink.net> <20130923082201.GA8482@nuc-i3427.alporthouse.com> <52404C6E.5000602@earthlink.net> <20130923145134.GJ8482@nuc-i3427.alporthouse.com> <52406125.9070709@earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-ea0-f174.google.com (mail-ea0-f174.google.com [209.85.215.174]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 285F4E5C75 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 02:07:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-ea0-f174.google.com with SMTP id z15so2280870ead.19 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 02:07:31 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <52406125.9070709@earthlink.net> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: intel-gfx-bounces+gcfxdi-intel-gfx=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org Errors-To: intel-gfx-bounces+gcfxdi-intel-gfx=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org To: Felix Miata Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org List-Id: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org 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