Gentoo Archives: gentoo-alpha

From: Brian Parkhurst <brianp@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-alpha@l.g.o
Cc: "X.Org Devel List" <xorg-devel@×××××××××××××××××.org>, Linux on Alpha processors <axp-list@××××××.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alpha] Need X testers on Alpha. I think we've got it this time.
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:06:56
Message-Id: 1254956809.29224.147.camel@n-its-7of9.mcis.washington.edu
In Reply to: [gentoo-alpha] Need X testers on Alpha. I think we've got it this time. by Matt Turner
1 I have an alpha DS-20e at home with a permedia i2pv card, however I can
2 pull it and put in a older PCI radeon card to test with. I also have an
3 older Matrox card I can test with..
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5 2.6.27-gentoo-r9 #4 SMP Sun Apr 5 21:10:02 PDT 2009 alpha EV67 Tsunami
6 GNU/Linux
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10 On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 18:52 -0400, Matt Turner wrote:
11 > Hi,
12 > I need a few people to test X on Alpha. Michael Cree found what we
13 > believe is the commit that broke X and also provided a patch to fix
14 > some undefined references. We just need to confirm that these changes
15 > make X work again and then we'll get them pulled into master and the
16 > 1.7 branch in time for 1.7.1
17 >
18 > I'd especially like testers for:
19 > - Radeon, varying generations, both user mode setting and kernel mode setting
20 > - Matrox
21 >
22 > Testers on non-BWX alphas would also be quite nice, since the last
23 > round of email seemed to show that you do in fact exist.
24 >
25 > My xserver repo is available at
26 > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~mattst88/xserver/ and contains the
27 > patches we think will fix it.
28 >
29 > Hats off to Michael Cree. :)
30 >
31 > Thanks,
32 > Matt Turner
33 >
34 > PS: Click Reply-___All___ since I've cross posted.
35 >
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