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Date:      Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:00:28 -0500
From:      Coleman Kane <cokane@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Coleman Kane <cokane@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ports/117854: x11/pixman 0.9.5 in ports needs update to 0.9.6
Message-ID:  <4733167C.2090907@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200711052100.lA5L061A061141@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <200711052100.lA5L061A061141@freefall.freebsd.org>

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Coleman Kane wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR ports/117854; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> From: Coleman Kane <cokane@FreeBSD.org>
> To: Cc: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org,  freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org, 
>  bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
> Subject: Re: ports/117854: x11/pixman 0.9.5 in ports needs update to 0.9.6
> Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:51:26 -0500
>
>  remko@FreeBSD.org wrote:
>  > Synopsis: x11/pixman 0.9.5 in ports needs update to 0.9.6
>  >
>  > Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-ports-bugs->freebsd-x11
>  > Responsible-Changed-By: remko
>  > Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Nov 5 20:40:21 UTC 2007
>  > Responsible-Changed-Why: 
>  > x11 team might be better
>  >
>  > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=117854
>  This fixes the crash reported in freedesktop.org's bugzilla bug #12398
>  <http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12398>. The following link
>  takes you there:
>  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12398
>  
>  Recommended for anyone who's got Xorg 7.3 crashing on them while viewing
>  large graphics objects (such as with evince).
>   
This also seems to have fixed a number of the times that the swfdec
firefox plugin would crash the Xserver as well. The flash pages that
seem to pervade the net now work fine (or about as well as they should)
under swfdec.

--
Coleman Kane




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