On Apr 1, 2014 6:00 AM, "Thomas Hellstrom" <thellstrom@vmware.com> wrote:
>
> On 03/28/2014 02:45 AM, Dave Airlie wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Christopher Friedt
> > <chrisfriedt@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Previously, the vmwgfx_fb driver would allow users to call FBIOSET_VINFO, but it would not adjust
> >> the FINFO properly, resulting in distorted screen rendering. The patch corrects that behaviour.
> >>
> >> See https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494794 for examples.
This correction in vmwgfx appears to have triggered a bug in xorg-video-vmware on Ubuntu systems with a custom / unreleased kernel.
If anyone from the X community does not step in, I'll take a look at it today.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-vmware/+bug/1328898