That bug…

We now have two tentative patches for bug #507797 my patch isn’t complete but is only missing a few bits and pieces, Toby’s is almost the same, we’d of course like reviewers to check over the patches and select which one should be applied.

So we’ve worked around the bug, of course this solution is merely stop gap between now and when Cairo is faster on all hardware. I must of course apologise to everyone who has hit this bug, especially as it was branched with this bug and the distributions have pulled in a buggy app. It was very difficult for me to identify this bug but as Jorgen had the issue on his laptop I managed to actually see it for the first time. This was a big help as I didn’t actually understand the problem. Jorgen also did the majority of the work to fix the bug so thanks go out to him.

We’re hoping to make a point release soon for distros to pull in and fix the problem.

** UPDATE ** I have now combined the two patches into one. We just need a review and we’re ready to commit.

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3 comments

  1. ethana2
    April 19, 2008 at 8:37 am

    Great work! You guys rock.

  2. Nicolas Mailhot
    April 19, 2008 at 9:32 am

    Thanks for the link, Option “EXAOptimizeMigration” “on” makes my nv system rendering firefox almost bearably

  3. Thomas Dybdahl Ahle
    April 20, 2008 at 5:32 pm

    Congrats : )
    Awful to have to use that much time on a workaround though.

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