Public bug reported: The image byte order on big endian hardware is incorrect and this is evident in the Ubuntu MATE 15.10 alpha 1 and daily images where many bitmap images are corrupt. This issue has recently been fixed in Debian.
* https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=785474 Please consider applying the associated upstream commit [1] in Ubuntu (also attached as a patch) or merge the Debian (unstable) release of xorg-server (2:1.17.2-1), which fixes this issue and several others. xorg-server (2:1.17.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium [ Sven Joachim ] * New upstream release. + symbols: Fix sdksyms.sh to cope with gcc5 (Closes: #778187) + os/access: fix regression in server interpreted auth (Closes: #784687) + dix: Fix image byte order on big endian hardware (Closes: #785474) + int10: Fix error check for pci_device_map_legacy (Closes: #787144) + modesetting: Include dix-config.h from dumb_bo.c (Closes: #789823) + unauthorised local client access in XWayland [CVE-2015-3164] (Closes: #788410) * Install the modesetting.4 manpage into xserver-xorg-core (Closes: #789646) * Build xserver-xorg-core-udeb on all architectures again (Closes: #775205) * Update debian/upstream/signing-key.asc. [1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=1af15aaf278edcf6f6de94774350e34a80883c24 ** Affects: xorg-server (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: xorg-server (Debian) Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Patch added: "0001-include-Fix-endianness-setup.patch" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1471185/+attachment/4423878/+files/0001-include-Fix-endianness-setup.patch ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #785474 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=785474 ** Also affects: xorg-server (Debian) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=785474 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg-server in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1471185 Title: xorg-server image byte order on big endian hardware is incorrect To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/1471185/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
