On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 08:56:57AM -0400, Kevin E Martin wrote:

>I admit I didn't think through all of the implications of the XAA
>change, but, rather, I put the new items in the XAAInfoRec where they
>logically should go -- next to the functions they effect.  Michel caught
>my oversight and has fixed the problem, but only in the DRI CVS tree.
>When Michel sends patches back to XFree86, I will incorporate them.
>And, I've asked him in private e-mail just last week to do exactly that.
>I have not fixed this problem in the XFree86 tree yet since I'm waiting
>either for a DRI/XFree86 resync or for patches to be sent in.
>
>In general, this is one of those "DRI CVS tree and XFree86 CVS tree have
>greatly diverged problems", which will hopefully be fixed soon when the
>two trees are resynced.  This resync is currently being planned and will
>hopefully happen sometime soon.

Compatibilty problems like this should be fixed as soon as they're found
rather than waiting for resyncs.  Otherwise, as in this case, they cause
mysterious problems for others trying to use the current XFree86 CVS.
Mark committed the relevant fix last night.

David
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