[YLUG] Getting bugs fixed

[mike cloaked]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 5:25 PM, mike cloaked <mike.cloaked at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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>
>
> Or the intel package in Fedora is at  xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.12.0-6.fc14<https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.12.0-6.fc14?_csrf_token=da888ba393f442f7452a9dd50d1e1ffaebe3f355>


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mike c
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