Patch for xorg ati driver ignored by Fedora

[Jim Cornette]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> X stopped working properly under FC2 on my Sony Picturebook (C1VFK) -
> it was impossible to run with bpp greater than 8.
> 
> But I recently found that there is a tiny patch
> which completely solves this problem at
> <http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=591>
> 
> I don't understand why this patch which is almost 6 months old
> is not applied to recent xorg rpms
> particularly as the bugzilla marks the problem as solved?
> 

Did this error happen after the -5 to -9 version change to xorg-x11? Or 
was this a problem before the very latest upgrade for FC2?

I was surprised to see an upgrade for xorg-x11 for FC2. Anyway, the 
latest version for xorg-x11 is now xorg-x11-6.8.1-6 and the changelog's 
most recent date was October 12th. (development repo)

I checked the changelog, but no info regarding recent ati related 
changes was in the log.

Anyway, maybe filing a bug in Fedora bugzilla, which mentions to the 
freedesk.org patch and location, against FC2 might ensure the patch is 
applied to FC2.

Keeping X up and running is a bit messy for some of the open-source 
drivers lately. The i810 driver is a real challenge lately.

Jim