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xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package

  1. Bug #1597437
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 1597437

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Martin (marthter) wrote :

This Fedora bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1307204 looks to me to be the same issue, and says that the cause is

'The problem is that xorg 1.17 or 1.18 replaced "HAS_DIRTYTRACKING2" with "HAS_DIRTYTRACKING_ROTATION" in pixmap.h and the old version of xf86-video-ati still looks for HAS_DIRTYTRACKING2. The newest version of xf86-video-ati looks for either:
#if !defined(HAS_DIRTYTRACKING_ROTATION) && !defined(HAS_DIRTYTRACKING2)'

and it appears to have patches for both ati and nouveau drivers. But I can't tell if that is a fedora-only patch or an upstream patch that can be brought to Ubuntu (or will eventually be brought in the normal course of version advances). Of course I am not an X expert so that fedora bug could be subtly different and thus not the same fix.