X.Org X11 6.8.2rc1 a.k.a 6.8.1.901 is now in Fedora Development (rawhide) for testing. This new X11 test release is from the stable bugfix-only 6.8-branch of X.Org X11 CVS. The new release fixes a large number of bugs in 6.8.1 which have been reported since it was released, including fixes to the X server, radeon and other drivers, and addition of PCI IDs of some newer hardware.
This is strictly a bug fix only release, and contains no new major features. If you experienced a bug in X.Org 6.8.1 or earlier which is still present in the currently shipping Fedora Core xorg-x11 update, you may want to install this release candidate to see if your bug may have been fixed.
For a complete list of the specific issues that have been fixed in the new release, I refer you to the X.org CVS changelog (xc/ChangeLog) in the X.Org source code, and the Red Hat rpm spec file changelog. This is the only location the changes are documented in, so read these 2 places if you want to know the details, as this is the only locations the changes are documented.
After upgrading to test the new release, if you experience any new bugs or regressions, please be sure to file them in X.Org's official bugzilla, which is located at:
http://bugs.freedesktop.org in the "xorg" component.
Be sure to indicate in your bug report the version of Fedora Core you are using, and the specific xorg-x11 rpm version-release from rawhide, which can be obtained by running "rpm -q xorg-x11". Also, make sure you attach your X server log and config file to the bug report as single uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment interface. If your problem is lockup/crash related, or DRI/AGP related, also attach your complete /var/log/messages from the time of boot onward, so there is sufficient information present in the bug report for an initial analysis.
If you experience any problems that are related specifically to the rpm packaging of xorg-x11, and not the software itself, please file them in Red Hat bugzilla instead, in the "xorg-x11" component.
SPECIAL NOTES: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1) Someone has reported a bug already, in which after upgrading to the new X.Org, their config file was renamed from xorg.conf to xorg.conf.backup. If this happens for you, just rename it back to xorg.conf and it should work as before. Don't report this bug in bugzilla again, as we already know about it and will be investigating it shortly.
2) Compatibility with 3rd party and proprietary video drivers: This release of X.Org is believed to be 100% ABI compatible with 6.8.1. As such, proprietary and other 3rd party drivers should function with this test release if they worked with 6.8.1. One important thing to note however, is that various 3rd party driver installation mechanisms such as Nvidia's proprietary driver installer, improperly overwrite X.Org supplied files which are managed by RPM in Fedora Core.
When you upgrade X.Org via rpm, some of the 3rd party driver files (most noteably libGL and libglx.a for Nvidia) will probably be overwritten by the new X.Org supplied files in rpm format. The simplest solution to this problem, is to obtain your Nvidia or ATI proprietary drivers in RPM format from:
Alternatively, you can redownload the driver again from wherever you got it the first time, and reinstall it.
If you experience any problems with unsupported 3rd party drivers, report them directly to the vendor who supplied the drivers, not to Red Hat. In the extremely unlikely event the X server module ABI has changed unexpectedly, if you experience proprietary driver problems with the new X server which you believe may be due to accidental regression in the X server, report it to X.Org in the http://bugs.freedesktop.org bugzilla, so the issue can be investigated before the 6.8.2 release finalizes.
3) If you experience ANY problems that you are planning on filing in any bugzilla, make sure you query that bugzilla's both open and closed bugs to see if the issue has already been reported. Quite often people don't do this critical step and an issue ends up being reported a large number of times, which wastes developers time closing duplicates that they could be spending fixing bugs.
On behalf of Red Hat, as well as X.Org, I would like to thank all of the brave beta testers out there in advance for testing this new X.Org stable release candidate. Enjoy.
Dnia 12/21/2004 08:53 AM, Użytkownik Mike A. Harris napisał:
you may want to install this release candidate to see if your bug may have been fixed.
This one seems to be fixed :D https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=123879
After upgrading to test the new release, if you experience any new bugs or regressions, please be sure to file them in X.Org's official bugzilla
Well, now after upgrading on the top of the cursor I can see funny black dot (especially visible on the white background). Unfortunately, I'm not able to make a screenshot with a cursor :/ Can anyone reproduce this bug?
I searched through RedHat's and freedesktop.org's bugzillas but I haven't found something similar.
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On Wednesday 22 December 2004 12:21, Dawid Gajownik wrote:
Well, now after upgrading on the top of the cursor I can see funny black dot (especially visible on the white background). Unfortunately, I'm not able to make a screenshot with a cursor :/ Can anyone reproduce this bug?
I see it, but I don't mind it. It's positioned right where you are pointing with the default pointer.
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Dnia 12/22/2004 02:15 PM, Użytkownik Andy Green napisał:
It's positioned right where you are pointing with the default pointer.
So is it a bug or a feature? Should I open a bug report or not?
mharris@www.linux.org.uk ("Mike A. Harris") writes:
This is strictly a bug fix only release, and contains no new major features. If you experienced a bug in X.Org 6.8.1 or earlier which is still present in the currently shipping Fedora Core xorg-x11 update, you may want to install this release candidate to see if your bug may have been fixed.
This bug is still present: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=138479
same bug but reported at freedesktop.org: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1214
Mike A. Harris wrote:
X.Org X11 6.8.2rc1 a.k.a 6.8.1.901 is now in Fedora Development
There is one bug that I'm experiencing with kernels later than kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 in which a computer with either a i810 or the computer with the Radeon card will lock up the machine randomly. An easy trigger for the problem is to change to a virtual terminal, then switch back to the GUI.
This is an excerpt of the last few Xorg.0.log before the crashing of the computer. (no response from keyboard, garbage on top line of display, no activity, but the pre-crash information is still on the display.
Jim
Running the versions of kernel-2.6.9-1.1048_FC4 and xorg-x11-6.8.1.901-1.
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event1" (--) Synaptics synaptics touchpad found (**) Option "AlwaysCore" (**) Synaptics: always reports core events (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Synaptics" (type: MOUSE) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Keyboard0" (type: KEYBOARD) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse0" (type: MOUSE) Synaptics DeviceInit called SynapticsCtrl called. (II) Mouse0: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded Synaptics DeviceOn called (--) Synaptics synaptics touchpad found Synaptics DeviceOff called (WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such file or directory) (II) RADEON(0): [RESUME] Attempting to re-init Radeon hardware. (II) RADEON(0): [agp] Mode 0x0f000207 [AGP 0x1002/0xcab0; Card 0x1002/0x4336] Synaptics DeviceOn called (--) Synaptics synaptics touchpad found (II) Mouse0: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
- If you experience ANY problems that you are planning on filing in any
bugzilla, make sure you query that bugzilla's both open and closed bugs to see if the issue has already been reported. Quite often people don't do this critical step and an issue ends up being reported a large number of times, which wastes developers time closing duplicates that they could be spending fixing bugs.
On behalf of Red Hat, as well as X.Org, I would like to thank all of the brave beta testers out there in advance for testing this new X.Org stable release candidate. Enjoy.
On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 02:53 -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:
X.Org X11 6.8.2rc1 a.k.a 6.8.1.901 is now in Fedora Development (rawhide) for testing. This new X11 test release is from the stable bugfix-only 6.8-branch of X.Org X11 CVS. The new release fixes a large number of bugs in 6.8.1 which have been reported since it was released, including fixes to the X server, radeon and other drivers, and addition of PCI IDs of some newer hardware.
Hi
Can you confirm that the patches referred to in the below link have been included?
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1559
Douglas Furlong wrote:
On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 02:53 -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:
X.Org X11 6.8.2rc1 a.k.a 6.8.1.901 is now in Fedora Development (rawhide) for testing. This new X11 test release is from the stable bugfix-only 6.8-branch of X.Org X11 CVS. The new release fixes a large number of bugs in 6.8.1 which have been reported since it was released, including fixes to the X server, radeon and other drivers, and addition of PCI IDs of some newer hardware.
Hi
Can you confirm that the patches referred to in the below link have been included?
The src.rpm is open source fortunately, so anyone can investigate this. Or even just test out new rpms and find out for themselves. I also recommend checking the rpm changelogs directly.