[Intel-gfx] Where should I report fill issues for the X stack?

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2011-02-25 17:38-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> The PLplot development team have just implemented a demanding 2D
> rendering test for X where we modify our standard example 27 (see
> http://plplot.sourceforge.net/examples.php?demo=27).  The standard
> version of that example simply draws a line corresponding to
> increasingly more complex "spirographic" polygons.  We have modified
> that example to fill using those boundaries with some really strange
> results. The rendering is awful (many missing filled areas and/or
> areas filled when they shouldn't be) for all spirographic cases if I
> use the EvenOddRule fill rule.  If I use the WindingRule instead, the
> results are more acceptable although there are still some obvious fill
> issues for the case of the more complex spirographic boundaries.
>
> The first obvious question is where should I report these X stack fill
> bugs?  Does the X server handle all fills (so these issues should be
> reported/discussed on the X list) or does the driver (or some other
> component of the X stack) do the fills (in which case the discussion
> should obviously be here since I am using the Intel X stack
> (Debian Squeeze version).

Just to follow up, this fill issue appears not to be specific to the
Intel driver since the fbdev and vesa drivers also showed the issue. I
made a Debian bug report about this issue
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=615491) and followed
advice from Michel Dänzer there about where to upstream the bug report
(see https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34877).  That last bug
report gives screenshots and a cookbook for replicating these X fill
bugs for self-intersecting boundaries.

Alan
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University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

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for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of
Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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