Subject: Re: Backout XF 4.2 for now?
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@mogua.com>
List: tech-x11
Date: 02/24/2002 17:48:35
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 03:03:33AM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> Hi!
>
> We keep seeing reports that XF 4.2 (i.e. our current xsrc) has bad stability
> problems. I'm seeing such problems on three machines of mine with different
> graphic cards myself.
>
> I have no clue what benefit XF 4.2 brought us, but if it is not realy a big
> benefit, I'd suggest to consider backing XF 4.2 out for now, as XF 4.1
> seemed to have worked rock solid everywhere.
>
> This impression might be heavily biased by my subjective hardware selection.
>
> Opinions?
How are other OS'es dealing with the problem? I guess NetBSD is not
the only one suffering from 4.2.0 bugs.
Jun-Young
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Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@mogua.com>