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From: "Olivier CrĂȘte" <tester@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] net-irc/xchat-xsys: Test request for ~x86 & ~amd64
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 19:44:59
Message-Id: 1113766995.10933.16.camel@localhost
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] net-irc/xchat-xsys: Test request for ~x86 & ~amd64 by Tony Vroon
1 Works here without problem
2
3 On Sun, 2005-17-04 at 12:33 +0100, Tony Vroon wrote:
4 > Could any xchat-xsys users that are not afraid of using an experimental
5 > patch unmask version 1.9.3 with /etc/portage/package.unmask and see if
6 > the /video output gives you the right information.
7 > If I get 10 reports that it works, I'll unmask it and unleash it on ~x86
8 > and ~amd64.
9 > (Any other arches will most probably miss out on some CPU-related
10 > information, tell me if at least /video works, and I'll try to get it
11 > supported fully).
12 >
13 > What the patch does is getting rid of the lspci dependency. Upstream
14 > reports that it can cause stale processes that will not disappear until
15 > X-Chat is closed.
16 > The code in question has been replaced with a sysfs tree-walker that
17 > should find the AGP video card in any system. If anyone out there has a
18 > PCI-Express adapter, I'd like to know if this code finds it or not.
19 >
20 > Thanks,
21 > Tony (Chainsaw).
22 --
23 Olivier CrĂȘte
24 tester@g.o
25 x86 Security Liaison

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