On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Martin Costabel wrote: > The yellow cursor bug is a typical intel (little endian) problem. It does not > only show up in remote X11 sessions, that's just where most people were > reporting it, I guess because X windows with a custom cursor icon are not > often used locally. I saw it most spectacularly in the "gcompris" educational > game (exists in Fink) which was basically unusable when the bug was present. > > As far as I can tell, it affected all versions of xfree86 or xorg on intel > macs unless specifically patched. The first fix that was sent upstream to > x.org appeared after Leopard's X11 was released. Are you saying that you did > not see it on 10.4/intel?
I have never run X11 on 10.4 intel! I compiled xorg on my headless intel mac pro because I have it set up as a deb server and wanted to compile everything against xorg rather than apple-X11, same as I do on my ppc machines. I did all my testing for compatibility of debs between 10.4 and 10.5 using ppc machines, then, when I got the new intel machine I proceeded to apply the same setup... So the patch never got applied to fink's xorg?? Anyone running X11 on 10.4 intel has stuck with apple-X11 and applied the patches to that?? I'm just a bit gobsmacked to discover this. I'm not complaining, I know there is plenty else on the to do list, I'm just very surprised... OK. So this suggests that I should try to patch it on 10.4, where I know it compiles, and not try to compile it on 10.5. I'm not sure I have the time or skills to do this. I'm guessing I'll have to find apple-X11 sources, see what the patch does to quartz-cursor.c, then try to find the equivalent places in Xdarwin source and apply something similar. Or, I can try Tiger's X11, apply the patch, and see if everything still works even though it was compiled against xorg. And recompile what doesn't. And first check there isn't some feature in Xdarwin that I use that is missing from Tiger's X11...I've been using xorg since it first appeared in fink, so it's been a while... many thanks for your help, cheers, -- Viv ------------------------------------------------ Dr Viv Kendon http://quantum.leeds.ac.uk/~viv Quantum Information Physics & Astronomy University of Leeds ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
