On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:38:27AM -0400, Matt Turner wrote: > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:27:28 -0400, Matt Turner wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> Thanks for the report. I was getting the exact same failure as you. > >> > >> The crash happens in xf86SlowBCopyFromBus, which seems to be totally > >> useless. So I killed that code: > >> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=5ef53a94ce4e48e11de26290cd677266308640c8 > >> > >> If anyone finds that it's needed on some systems, let me know and > >> we'll figure out something. Otherwise, that code is gone from > >> xserver-1.7 and shouldn't cause any more problems. > >> > >> I don't know if anyone is planning another 1.6.x release, but if they > >> are, they might consider cherry-picking that commit. > >> > > It can probably be cherry-picked to our package in any case, if someone > > confirms that it's enough to make things work. > > > > Cheers, > > Julien > > > > Unfortunately, it's not. It just gets you past that segfault. > > I might have further broken sparse mapping support with it as well. > > We just need to get to a point where _something_ works on Alpha, and > then we'll go back and fix sparse. > > Matt
Thanks for the quick response. I'll be glad to test/eval any update prior to its release to "testing" if that would be helpful. Just let me know what it is and when it's available from the "unstable" pool. --Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-alpha-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org