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| chrstphrchvz | /msg NickServ set password freenodeCC | 20:36 |
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| mlankhorst | aw changed :p | 20:39 |
| chrstphrchvz | oops, ignore that | 20:39 |
| chrstphrchvz | While I'm figuring out a better password though, I was trying to help out with this bug here https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1314924 ; the issue is resolved by upgrading to 14.04.2 but is it necessary? | 20:41 |
| ubottu | Launchpad bug 1314924 in firefox (Ubuntu) "Adressbox Entries unreadable: Grey/Black Mask overlaying text" [High,Confirmed] | 20:41 |
| chrstphrchvz | An affected user writes back, "Nobody wants to upgrade or enable the HWE..." | 20:42 |
| mlankhorst | then bisect it.. | 20:43 |
| mlankhorst | oh you already have 2 bugs linked in fd.org | 20:47 |
| mlankhorst | just try those patches and do a stablereleaseupdate | 20:47 |
| chrstphrchvz | The problematic package (firefox) has considered but not implemented a workaround. The actual issue was due to xf86-video-intel and it was fixed by the time Utopic was released… | 20:47 |
| mlankhorst | from the bug description it links to a fd.org bug | 20:47 |
| mlankhorst | which links to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75818 or https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77201 | 20:47 |
| ubottu | Freedesktop bug 75818 in Driver/intel "Odd color under menu on old hardware on google page with SNA" [Trivial,Resolved: fixed] | 20:48 |
| ubottu | Freedesktop bug 77201 in Driver/intel "[855GM] Firefox textdisplay problems (partly or full blank lines) after update to xf86-video-intel-2.99.911" [Normal,Resolved: fixed] | 20:48 |
| chrstphrchvz | So can that be made available to non-HWE 14.04 users? | 20:48 |
| mlankhorst | https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates is the procedure | 20:51 |
| mlankhorst | bit of paperwork + making a fixed package | 20:51 |
| chrstphrchvz | Thanks. I'm not a developer though, much less a maintainer or triager; is there somewhere else to ask with the SRU process (e.g. ubuntu-bugs)? | 20:55 |
| chrstphrchvz | Would this issue even qualify under the "When" criteria? | 21:23 |
| chrstphrchvz | @mlankhorst, from what Chris Wilson wrote on fd.org, there might be two possible patches since the resolution was not specific to the issue (it was marked duplicate) | 21:41 |
| Chipaca | I'm trying to use an R9 285 (tonga) on 15.04, but getting no direct rendering at all | 21:48 |
| Chipaca | anybody got any pointers for me? | 21:48 |
| Chipaca | I've managed to get catalyst omega to work by fixing the code a little (removing a problematic ifdef), but it crashes too much | 21:51 |
| Chipaca | and i'd much rather use the open drivers anyway | 21:52 |
| tjaalton | Chipaca: get fully rid of fglrx first | 22:04 |
| Chipaca | tjaalton: done that | 22:04 |
| Chipaca | rebooted also | 22:04 |
| Chipaca | then tried to get updated drivers but none of them seem to be building vivid | 22:05 |
| tjaalton | so which is it, fglrx or oss? | 22:05 |
| Chipaca | e.g. oibaf's stuff for vivid is just mesa | 22:05 |
| Chipaca | tjaalton: not sure i understand the question | 22:05 |
| Chipaca | tjaalton: neither the free software nor the fglrx ones that come in 15.04 work | 22:05 |
| tjaalton | you want open source drivers but install fglrx? | 22:06 |
| Chipaca | the only thing that has given me accelerated 3d has been a tweaked fglrx i downloaded and built from the amd site | 22:06 |
| tjaalton | actually I'm not sure radeon supports that | 22:06 |
| tjaalton | no idea about fglrx | 22:06 |
| Chipaca | tonga? no it doesn't | 22:06 |
| Chipaca | not in vivid at least | 22:06 |
| Chipaca | tjaalton: as to what i want, i want the free software one to work, of course | 22:07 |
| Chipaca | i can wait for it if the answer is "wait for it", using crashy fglrx until then | 22:08 |
| tjaalton | it won't be in 4.0 either, no amdgpu driver exists | 22:08 |
| tjaalton | and I know nothing of fglrx | 22:08 |
| tjaalton | sounds like it's just buggy | 22:09 |
| Chipaca | i don't think "buggy" is the word | 22:10 |
| Chipaca | there should be something _under_ buggy | 22:10 |
| tjaalton | fglrx? :) | 22:11 |
| Chipaca | perhaps | 22:11 |
| Chipaca | it reminds me of the drivers for AMR modems from way back when | 22:11 |
| tjaalton | if you buy radeon for linux, choose wisely | 22:12 |
| tjaalton | means not the latest | 22:12 |
| Chipaca | :( | 22:12 |
| tjaalton | some googling might've helped there | 22:12 |
| Chipaca | i thought i had. i read about it being well supported by fglrx, and nearly there for the free drivers (performance was excellent with them, better than fglrx, they said) | 22:12 |
| tjaalton | then use it on a release where it's stable | 22:13 |
| tjaalton | not vivid | 22:13 |
| Chipaca | i need vivid for work, and i'm not going to boot into an operating system just for 3d | 22:13 |
| tjaalton | change the card then | 22:14 |
| Chipaca | i tried, but have been told it's going to be tested with a windows machine, and if it works, the rma will be denied | 22:14 |
| tjaalton | no i mean different vendor/generation | 22:15 |
| Chipaca | so now i'm trying to sell it msyelf | 22:15 |
| Chipaca | but i'm not very good at that, so i'm giving the free drivers one last runaround | 22:15 |
| tjaalton | there is no free driver | 22:15 |
| Chipaca | with the perhaps naive presumption that phoronix can't be 100% full of lies | 22:15 |
| tjaalton | the kernel drm driver is not | 22:16 |
| Chipaca | but there's an amdgpu tree on github, aiui | 22:16 |
| Chipaca | anyway, rebooting back into fglrx so i can shoot people before bed | 22:17 |
| Chipaca | thanks | 22:17 |
| tjaalton | the kernel has amdgpu stuff already, just not r28x support on it | 22:21 |
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