Slashdot is discussing "FC3: worthwhile or not ?"

[Nils Philippsen]

On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 17:24 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> On Thursday 18 November 2004 16:27, Nils Philippsen wrote:
> 
> > > I guess I'm not really convinced that sufficient time and effort
> > > is devoted by the Fedora team to ironing out installation problems.
> > > [My view is strengthened by the fact that
> > > a simple patch to xorg-x11 posted over 6 months ago - not by me -
> > > has still not been applied,
> > > although this means that X will not run on my Sony Picturebook,
> > > and I assume on most other Picturebooks too.
> > > If you are interested you will find some info on this
> > > at http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~tim/Picturebook/ .]
> >
> > Which Bugzilla number is this? The URL only gives a binary RPM and an
> > xorg.conf, the only info I could draw from that is that the Pictureboook
> > apparently has a display with 1024x480 pixels ;-).
> 
> Apologies. The (very small) patches can be found at
> <<http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=591>.
> (I've added that info to the README at the URL I gave -)
> I made the xorg-x11 rpm I compiled available
> in response to requests from Picturebook owners.
> 
> If you have any influence on the Xorg team,

Well, I don't (not being an X maintainer and such)...

> please use it to get this patch into the xorg-x11 distribution,
> and if possible into FC-3 too.

Please open a bugzilla entry at bugzilla.redhat.com against the Fedora
Core product and the xorg-x11 component, referencing the "foreign"
bugzilla entry.

Nils
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