[YLUG] Getting bugs fixed

[mike cloaked]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Liam Wilson <liam.wilson at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone
>
> I'm a bit stuck with a bug I'd like to get fixed. I've reported the bug to
> ubuntu:
>
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/696957
>
> Essentially, if you're on ubuntu 10.10, have an intel graphics card, turn
> off text antialiasing, and attempt to draw large text - your x server dies.
> Which is fun. You browse the internet, hit a webpage with large text (in
> firefox, doesn't seem to affect chrome) then X gets killed and you're back
> at the gdm login screen.
>
> Any idea who I should poke to fix the issue? I've even attached a patch
> which fixes the bug. All that needs doing is a code review.
>
> Liam
>
>
> Is this a specific Ubuntu problem or is it a general xorg bug?  If general
then it sounds like maybe you should file upstream?
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/

<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/>or look at the xorg lists at
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/

Intel has been problematic for several years with xorg support - but things
are improving....  in Fedora we are at version around
xorg-x11-server-1.9.3-4.fc14<https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xorg-x11-server-1.9.3-4.fc14?_csrf_token=da888ba393f442f7452a9dd50d1e1ffaebe3f355>

<http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/>Mike

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mike c
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