[Spice-devel] [PATCH 0/2] stability for dual head

[David Mansfield]

Bump. I'll make it easy.  This is a multiple choice response form. 
Anyone reading this can respond with one letter so save time and effort.

a) "We're too busy with RHEL 7/paying clients, come back in a month/some 
timeframe"
b) "There's an SEP field on these problems, everyone who understands 
that code has moved on"
c) "Go away"
d) "Oops, I've been meaning to get back to you but I keep forgetting and 
life is hectic..."
e) "Didn't you hear? SPICE is dead."
f) "Other." Please elaborate using the space provided below:


On 05/27/2014 10:49 AM, David Mansfield wrote:
>
> On 05/19/2014 10:01 AM, David Mansfield wrote:
>> This patch series addresses two critical bugs that prevent dual-head
>> from working in a linux-linux environment. (All testing done on F20
>> fully updated as guest, host and client).
>>
>> We (myself and a colleague) have been using patched versions of qxl.ko
>> and xorg-qxl for a week or so and these patches definitely solve the
>> problems addressed by the invididual patches.
>>
>> Patches are against F20 package source.
>>
>> Please consider reviewing/accepting these patches without which dual
>> head cannot be used(*) in linux.
>>
>> These patches or previous versions have been sent to the list but I
>> have not received any feedback.
>>
>> (*) by coincidence, dual head with small-ish monitor sizes does work
>> better on gnome3 than it does with other DE (ie. MATE or fluxbox) due
>> simply to luck in the order that the monitors/surfaces ioctl are
>> called, but not due to any design.
>>
>
> I've opened/updated the freedesktop.org bugs with these two patches 
> and some commentary.  It would be helpful if the maintainers of the 
> respective code bases (qxl.ko and xorg-qxl) could comment on these two 
> patches or at least a "resend in one month - we're really busy" or 
> something.
>
> Bugs:
>
> Multiple monitors broken in desktops other than gnome3 : 
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78131
>
> xorg crashes due to assert() when a large "image" is created : 
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79317
>