[Spice-devel] xorg-x11-drv-qxl in Fedora should be updated to 0.1.2

[David Mansfield]

On 07/29/2014 11:09 AM, David Mansfield wrote:
>
> On 07/28/2014 09:10 AM, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> $subject says it all, I've looked into doing this myself,
>> but there are quite a few patches, which likely can be all dropped,
>> but I believe it is better for the update to be done by someone who
>> knows the code better, and thus is a better judge of which patches
>> can be dropped.
>>
>>
> I've managed to be lucky enough to uncover lots of xorg qxl issues in 
> the past, so I'll build a "plain jane" 0.1.2 version here and test it.
>
> # fix a blocker in F20 the quick way.
> no-surfaces-kms.patch
>

This one seems to be necessary.  Within about 1 minute xorg starts 
acting funky - long stalls and rendering issues (see attached PNG of the 
"System" menu in MATE).

With 0.1.2 "vanilla" + no-surfaces-kms.patch, that particular problem 
seems gone (long enough to type this at least).

-- 
Thanks,
David Mansfield
Cobite, INC.

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