Bug 240267 – [patch] x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.8.0-r1 (xrandr, rotate, xaa, dri disabled)

• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Dyweni 2008-10-06 13:27:13 UTC]

The following patch fixes an uninitialized variable that will crash X.org when rotating the screen using the radeon_drv driver with XAA acceleration and DRI disabled.

This applies to ebuilds 6.8.0, 6.8.0-r1, and 6.9.0.

Confirmed fix in ati git master.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Dyweni 2008-10-06 13:28:49 UTC]

Created attachment 167451 [details, diff]
patch for xf86-video-ati-6.8.0-r1

this patch applies to the 6.8.0, 6.8.0-r1, 6.9.0

[Comment 2 Dyweni 2008-10-06 13:29:41 UTC]

Created attachment 167453 [details]
updated ebuild for 6.8.0-r1

[Comment 3 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) 2009-05-14 17:31:10 UTC]

Hi, i am not a big fan of fixing stuff in XAA, you have any issues with using EXA? (since it is also upstream recomended backend...)
Btw did you sent your patch to upstream too? :]

Cheers

[Comment 4 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2009-09-19 23:01:42 UTC]

Please get back to us.

Thanks