[Bug 33617] Re: [agp] X.org does not initialize screen on IBM T20, T21, T22

[Gabriel M.]

@Mark: If I was a Linux system programmer, I'd be already fixing the
bug. If I had money to spare, I would probably have already donated a
Thinkpad T22 to a developer or paid him to fix the bug (or bought my
friend a new computer with a preinstalled OS, if I didn't care about the
environment). But frankly it's rather insulting to get the canned answer
"do it yourself or pay someone to do it or shut up": how does saying
that to someone help moving things forward?

You should rather test the patch since you have two of the computers at
home.

@ Tormod: What do we have to do to test the patch, anyways? It seems an
earlier version was provided in .deb format, but I assume for this one
we have to get the src deb, patch, then hopefully a debian command can
auto-compile and package the whole thing? If you give simple
instructions I can follow in 15min, I'll try and test it when I do my
test installs on Saturday. But as much as I'd like to, I can't spend
hours digging through wiki pages.

I'm concerned about the number of manual fixes that might be required to
get Intrepid working on this T22. Will I be able to tell it's user to
apply critical updates when they come up, or will I constantly fear that
the updates overwrite my fixes?

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[agp] X.org does not initialize screen on IBM T20, T21, T22
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