[Request for Testing] X.Org X11 CVS rpms are now in rawhide

Jim Cornette fct-cornette at sbcglobal.net
Sun Aug 15 19:31:54 UTC 2004


Mike A. Harris wrote:
> Over the last couple of weeks I've been preparing new X.Org CVS rpm
> packages for rawhide.  After several rounds of internal testing by
> a few people, I've stomped out the obvious upgrade breakages that
> turned up.  Now it is time to get more widespread testing for two
> purposes:
> 
> 1) To help upstream X.Org get wider testing coverage before the
> final release of X11R6.8.0, which is currently slated for
> August 25th barring any slippage, and get any software bugs that
> are found reported to X.Org bugzilla on freedesktop.org.
> 
> 2) To get distribution testing for Fedora Core 3 of the new X
> release, as we will be shipping 6.8.0 in FC3.
> 
> *** IMPORTANT ***
> 
> If you upgrade or install the new CVS rpms and experience any bugs
> in the X.Org X server, video drivers, client libraries, or other
> parts of the X11 release, they need to be filed in *X.Org* bugzilla,
> so that they stand a chance of getting fixed before 6.8.0 is
> finalized.
> 

I submitted a bug for the i815 video driver. I'm playing w/ SELinux 
also. I had to reinstall the original version off of disk to get back up 
and running.

The bug filed is below. Uploading message txt now.

http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1086

Jim (Back to basics)

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