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Distributed bug tracking

Distributed bug tracking

Posted May 14, 2008 19:20 UTC (Wed) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)
In reply to: Distributed bug tracking by tzafrir
Parent article: Distributed bug tracking

One thing I'd really like to be able to do is report that using xscreensaver crashes my X
server. Does this go to Ubuntu? X? xscreensaver? ATI? DRM? Mesa? The really right thing would
be to encourage all of the above to discuss it amongst themselves, because the actual answer
may well be that it's an incompatibility between particular versions of two different
projects, and the solution is for Ubuntu to apply a patch known to one of those projects to
the version they're shipping or use a newer version of the project.

(IIRC, it turned out to be that OpenGL had issues with the vesa driver and the particular
graphics card; telling xscreensaver to just blank the screen worked, and switching to the
proprietary driver to get dual-head fixed it as a side effect)


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