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xorg-server package

  1. Bug #89853
  2. Comment #29

Comment 29 for bug 89853

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SBrewer (sbrewer) wrote : Re: [regression] X broken in Feisty Herd 5 Live

Fedora has a new driver out in the last few days that attempts to address (probably) the same problem. This is now at 1.3.0-5.fc7

As an experiment I extracted vesa_drv.so from the fedora package. Then I booted into an alpha version of the Ubuntu Feisty livecd, and copied over the vesa driver. Then i tried startx and the Xorg log had the same result.

I am starting to think that the only real way to debug this is to put in detailed debugging output in the mode selection part of the driver. I looked at how much effort it would take to build vesa_drv from source, but ran out of time.

Is there a simple set of instructions for building the driver?