Happy new year !

• #440495, #437255 ping – Keyboard steal after stopping touchpad.
• #476143 Closed: submitter never answered Brice’s request – xserver-xorg-video-nv: Driver reports wrong display size.
• #468331 ping – xserver-xorg-input-kbd: xorg.conf okay, no AltGr though but “setxkbmap -variant nodeadkeys de” works.
• #498210 ping – xserver-xorg-input-kbd: ctrl:nocaps keycode 66 is on both the control and shiftlock modifier list.
• #488685 ping & close: hardware not available anymore – xserver-xorg-input-kbd: Acer TravelMate 2303M : the ‘Fn’ key is inverted.
• #511910 ping – xserver-xorg-input-evtouch 0.8.7-3 does not work with HAL.
• #513297 close – x11-xkb-utils: When I use the setxkbmap command i get the following error: Error loading new keyboard description.

The X Strike Force (still) needs you !

You can have a look at the X Strike Force Bug Closing Procedure and check XSF unstable bugs sorted by date.

For some reason¹ bug #607242 did not make it to the debian-x@d.o mailing list, I got aware of it only by the message shirish sent to my blog.
If he didn’t write to me, this bug will have waited for what… about 3 years until I got all the 800+ bugs triaged ? So please you can help triaging X bugs, first subscribe to the debian-x mailing list so you can get the feeling of what to respond to some bugs, and join the TXBW effort 😉

• #607242 reassign & give+ask moreinfo.
• #403350 ping & try nouveau – xserver-xorg-video-nv: xset dpms force off does not turn off the backlight.
• #469104 config suggestions & close – xserver-xorg-video-tdfx: screen resolution too low.
• #476198 closed – xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd: Cannot turn on a secondary screen without restarting X (xrandr-related problem).
• #492783 ping, unreproducible – vt switch key combination leaks to clients.
• #496150 ping – xserver-xorg-core: shutting off monitor messes up display.
• #504104 ping & closed – xserver-xorg-input-mouse: Emulate3Buttons stops working from time to time.

The X Strike Force (still) needs you !

You can have a look at the X Strike Force Bug Closing Procedure and check XSF unstable bugs sorted by date.

An other week, a few more bugs looked, unfortunately in the mean time the number of bug grew to 875…

• #471423 ping – ati driver ignore Option “Enable” “false” in monitor section, but accept the undocumented Option “Disable” “true”.
• #468561 ping & closed – vesa: switching resolution with xrandr after suspend-to-ram.
• #447526 ping – memory leaks.
• #475534 closed – as reported said, oclock seams to work correctly…
• #466044 ping – xserver-xorg-core: internal screen of laptop with external screen attached not blanked when laptop closed but still in use.
• #482317 ping – libxt6: scroll list overflow in gv.
• #425814 ping – xserver-xorg-video-ati: Xv broken on Mach64 3D Rage LT Pro AGP-133.

The X Strike Force (still) needs you !

You can have a look at the X Strike Force Bug Closing Procedure and check XSF unstable bugs sorted by date.

Last week I was too busy for the triaging work, so I did more this week… Anyway there are still some 871 bug candidate for triaging, so again, any help would be appreciated !

Also I’d like to thank again people giving me cheers and advices when they receive my pings 😉

The buglist now:

• #419986 ping & close – server lockups related to dri.
• #415588 ping – modelines are ignored.
• #417601 ping & close – mga dri issue.
• #439357 closed – 3 year old install issue… Not relevant anymore…
• #377847 ping – nv driver: No way to set 1600×1200, apparently it works with nouveau.
• #449039 ping – crash with too many remote clients.
• #440880 closed – 3 year old, user never replied.
• #457440 ping – ctrl-alt keyboard combinations ceased working after prompts by ratpoison.
• #413691 ping & closed – arrow keys sometimes produce repeated digits.
• #451537 ping then closed by submitter – Can no longer scroll up/down with edge of touchpad.
• #437254 ping – touchpad issue, at first the reported tried to hack out a patch…
• #444183 ping – macbook xserver-xorg-input-mouse: Vertical scrolling doesn’t work anymore.
• #445625 ping: try nouveau? – crash with nv driver and dual head configuration.
• #428091 ping – Display has wrong colours and is offset (in 16bpp only).

The X Strike Force (still) needs you !

You can have a look at the X Strike Force Bug Closing Procedure and check XSF unstable bugs sorted by date.

This week it has been harder for me to start on this… but KiBi’s post Debian XSF News #1 pushed me to continue. Thanks for the cheers!

• #331637 ping – Xrandr disabled while Xorg log says the opposite.
• #321357 tagged wontfix – xset behaves as intended, there is no easy way to set keyboard autorepeat for single key…
• #242442 close – xclock -rv looks visible to me.
• #427346 close – was already tagged unreproducible, I couldn’t reproduce it either so I closed it.
• #169239 ping – 8 year old wish… probably too late ?
• #431449 ping – xmodmap errors when launched by keyboard shortcut.
• #202923 close – xorg has timestamps in server log messages.
• #252214 tagged wontfix – Andrew Pimlott (reporter) said “This bug probable needs a NOBODYCARES tag. :-)” so wontfix will do it.

The X Strike Force (still) needs you !

You can have a look at the X Strike Force Bug Closing Procedure and check XSF unstable bugs sorted by date.

Hey, one more week !

• #418377 – ping & closed (default X resolution for etch?! installation).
• #419960 – ping & closed (submitter screen apparently does not support DPMS).
• #409337 – ping (Xorg/Gdm vertical refresh config).
• #389030 – closed (boot with no usb mouse now work !).
• #309226 – ping (xnest crash, seams fixed now).
• #397438 – ping (dual monitor on old ati driver).
• #414275 – ping, user can’t test it any more, so closing.

Well my UDD query report 879 bugs today… not a great improvement since last week… if more bugs are opened than I can close, I’m not going to make it alone !

The X Strike Force (still) needs you !

You can have a look at the X Strike Force Bug Closing Procedure and check XSF unstable bugs sorted by date.

Here is my report for the first week, (actualy I’m a little bit late, but friday loked like a better day for such reports)

• #385803 – Reported upstream.
• #391452 – Wontfix, there is a nicer alternative.
• #335515 – Ping & closed.
• #394529 – Asked for a phrasing (any native English writer can help here).
• #252585 – I’m not sure the actual needed changes worth it, so I proposed to just document it, waiting for feedback…
• #379480 – Ping & closed.
• #290881 – Today’s package has changed, so reassigned and updated info.
• #251449 – Added info, if someone is more easy with wiki stuff than bug triaging, then updating the FAQ is a work for you ;).
• #420018 – Ping & closed.

That’s it… about 880 bugs more to go !

The X Strike Force (still) needs you !

You can have a look at the X Strike Force Bug Closing Procedure and check XSF unstable bugs sorted by date.

First, Hello Planet Debian !

Some words about me

I’m a new member of the X Strike Force, the debian team responsible for packaging Xorg. I basically stepped in with the openchrome driver.
I also have wider interest in free software or open source in general, but you can have a look at the rest of my blog, so I won’t bother you with too much details.

More about X

Talking with various attendant at MiniDebConf Paris, I got the impression that people think working on Xorg is hard.

I must say: It’s not !

First debian work is mostly packaging, and the developers of the applications we package (debian call them upstream) are pretty responsive, so you won’t be on your own.
Most of the work is preparing the packages for their new release, place them in experimental first, and ask for testers.
Then people test and the real work start: we receive bug reports.
Sometime seeing the report, it’s easy to point the user to test some other version, do some change, remove some old libraries in /usr/local/lib.
Sometime we need to ask for more information.

I said we, but for now unless it’s about openchrome, I can’t help much, but I follow the bugs on the X mailing list and learn from others response, I think I’ll be able to help soon.

An other way to help: TXBW

I’m sure you’ve read about RCBW, kudos to every one posting some and to every BSP attendant.
But if you thought X was hard, you certainly find the remaining RC bugs too hard (Or if not, you might want some distraction with an easier task).

So I have a proposition for you: Triage X Bugs of the Week (TXBW)

As Lucas told on his blog I’ve proposed him a patch to help triaging X bugs using UDD. And he accepted it, Thanks !

So here is the link I’m using: XSF unstable bugs sorted by date.
But remember the udd database is not live data, if you close a bug, it won’t disappear immediately.
Also please read the X Strike Force Bug Closing Procedure before starting.

To conclude my TXBW data (well TXB of the Day so to speak)

• #233204 – pinged submitter.
• #334461 – closed, no longer occur.
• #204378 – proposed a development direction, if anybody is really interested in actually using XDM, please have a look.
• #303889 – closed, ion3 no longer available to test.
• #369389 – closed, the report details very old versions.

I hope this can be a success like the RCBW initiative is.
Currently there are hundreds of X bugs, more than a half are at least one year old so they deserve to be triaged !

The X Strike Force (still) needs you !