X 3.3.5 still Broken

Tom Rini trini at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Oct 1 10:17:10 EST 1999


On 30 Sep 1999, jeramy b smith wrote:

> The X rpms in the updates directory at ftp.linuxppc.org were a bad move. I had
> reported that the first a set of test rpms wouldnt work in 16bit on RageII
> chips like in the beige G3 computers. The problem is worse in the set that was
> put into the updates directory. Now 16 and 24 will not work and 256 causes
> netscape to have the old 24bit bug where all the widgets lose their coloring.

Which begs the question, have you re-configured X for 3.3.5?

> I noticed in the debian mailing list that there were some patches being
> floated around, maybe 3.3.5 needs to be recompiled with these?

Well, we have all those and more, so no.

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