[Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#597378: Fwd: Re: Bug#597357: unblock: cairo/1.8.10-6

[Patrick Matthäi]

Am 19.09.2010 15:51, schrieb Mehdi Dogguy:
> I'm forwarding a mail that wasn't sent properly.
> 
> If you have comments/questions, please share.

Thanks for your forward. Comments below.

> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Bug#597357: unblock: cairo/1.8.10-6
> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 15:44:04 +0200
> From: Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi at dogguy.org>
> To: Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org>, 597357-done at bugs.debian.org
> CC: fglrx-driver at packages.qa.debian.org
> 
> On 09/19/2010 02:11 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote:
>> Le dimanche 19 septembre 2010 à 11:12 +0200, Mehdi Dogguy a écrit :
>>> On 09/19/2010 12:05 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote:
>>>> Everybody using the fglrx driver should set the 
>>>> MOZ_CAIRO_BUGGY_REPEAT environment variable, everybody else 
>>>> should get a correctly working and fast cairo again.
>>>
>>> Isn't it worth mentioning such a change in debian/NEWS? So that 
>>> users are actually aware of the behaviour change.
>>
>> I think it should be documented in fglrx instead. The behavior of 
>> 1.8.10-5 is buggy anyway, so we just came back and gave fglrx users 
>> an opportunity to have a working gecko/webkit.

Maybe it would be better if it will be documented on both sides.

>>
>> However nobody is going to look for the solution in the cairo 
>> documentation. Ideally, I’d even say this variable should be set by 
>> fglrx in a Xsession startup script if the driver is being used, 
>> instead of being documented (remember, no one reads documentation).
>>

Isn't this deprecated in Debian?

> 
> Fair enough. I CC'ed fglrx maintainers so that they are aware of this
> change and can document it somehow. It think it's worth mentioning in
> the Release Notes, no?

With fglrx 10-9-1 the issues are mostly fixed (or workarounded?). I
didn't get any screen regressions anymore.
The only new bug I get about this is #597378 ("[fglrx] wrong colors
(pink instead of blue, green instead of orange) in some images of
XULRunner applications (Iceweasel, Icedove)"), but I am still waiting on
more input.

So maybe we do not need it at all with the Squeeze release. :)

I have also forwarded it to the bugreporter, so please also try out the
enviroment override.

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