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Date:      06 Apr 2003 01:49:46 -0800
From:      Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu>
To:        Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADSUP: XFree86 4.3.0 update
Message-ID:  <1049622586.613.18.camel@leguin>
In-Reply-To: <20030315125906.1ffa136d.steve@sohara.org>
References:  <1047429424.8471.40.camel@leguin> <20030315125906.1ffa136d.steve@sohara.org>

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On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 03:59, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> On 11 Mar 2003 16:37:04 -0800
> Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> wrote:
> 
> EA> I've committed the update of XFree86 to 4.3.0 to ports.  I think I've
> EA> cleaned up after my mess at this point, but there may still be issues.
> EA> 
> EA> Please report to me if you have any problems with the new ports or any
> EA> issues with XFree86 that you didn't have in 4.2.0.
> 
> 	I've just installed 4.3.0 (via portupgrade) including the diffs
> for the DRM modules. Everything seems to be working well (including DRI
> and XVideo) apart from the -inroot option in xlock which reports:
> 
> X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
>   Major opcode of failed request:  1 (X_CreateWindow)
>   Serial number of failed request:  132
>   Current serial number in output stream:  139
> 
> 	The video card is an ATI Radeon 7500 All In Wonder.
> 
> 	Mplayer is quite happy to use the root window.

I think this is the same issue that came up on the dri lists.  In the
new release, the visuals associated with the root window changed.  Both
of the sets of visuals are legal. The conclusion the discussion came to
was that it's not necessary to change it back, but it might be nice if
someone tracked it down.

-- 
Eric Anholt                                eta@lclark.edu          
http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/         anholt@FreeBSD.org



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