Comment 31 for bug 36461

--- Tollef Fog Heen <email address hidden> wrote:

> | Can somebody please give a timeframe for the following:
> |
> | 1) when will X.org 7.2 (in which this X.org bug is fixed) reach Edgy?
>
> Given that Xorg 7.2 isn't scheduled until October/November, it
> probably won't. We might be able to backport the fix, though.

OK, to my knowledge several other distros have backported this fix (Novell for
one) - this would be ideal if 7.2 won't release until Edgy+1.

> | 2) will a patch be rolled out to existing Dapper users via APT or will
> | we have to tell people to upgrade to Edgy to use their dualheads again?
> | if so, when?
>
> Dualheads work fine, just not this particular configuration. If it's
> a small and well-contained fix, we should be able to backport it to
> dapper-updates. I am not sure of the time-frame as we are all
> insanely busy with Edgy at the moment and trying to get Ubuntu's and
> Debian's X packages in sync. Once that happens, we might be able to
> isolate the fix and apply it in Dapper.

That would be greatly appreciated. It would appear that a great many people
are affected - in fact it sounds like most people who have onboard VGA and/or 2
cards from different vendors encounter this problem. ATI appears to be
especially problematic.

I already offered my services to the xserver-xorg maintainers to see if there
was some way I might be able to help but received no response.

Thanks for investigating.

Cheers
Ashley

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