More On Ubuntu's BulletProofX

[phoronix]

Phoronix: More On Ubuntu's BulletProofX

Early this morning we published an article on Ubuntu's BulletProofX taking a simpler approach for its fail-safe mode when the X Server fails to properly start. No longer is the user bound to displayconfig-gtk but there is a menu system with options for diagnosing the problem and reconfiguring the xorg.conf...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NjczNA

[ernstp]

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepi...ler/+changelog

fglrx-installer (2:8.532-0ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Add debian/kernel-source-patches/fglrx_8.9_2.6.27.patch
    to allow compiling against 2.6.27. (LP: #266956)
  * debian/dkms.conf.in:
    - Use 2.6.27 patch when building against 2.6.27
  * debian/fglrx-kernel-source.install.in:
    - Install patches in kernel-source-patches.

Looks like they'll manage.

[Kano]

Looks like they use the patches the way I did, because I patch triggered by dkms and not by distro name (intrepid) which was default before. The patch itself is trivial - 3 lines to change triggered on 2.6.27 kernel, but they don't fix the ABI problem with Xserver 1.5 which looks like this:

undefined symbol: miZeroLineScreenIndex