From: Jacob Meuser (jakemsrsdf.lonestar.org)
Date: Tue Aug 24 2010 - 17:30:46 CDT

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On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:27:37PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2010/08/24 20:29, Jacob Meuser wrote:
> > > > > This seems to be a bug intruduced with xorg 7.5 with this commit:
> > > > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=91f73b79b7ae64e5b846d1efeb470bb61a913720
> > > > > as reported here:
> > > > > http://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=971
> > > > > quick fix (but wrong) here:
> > > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/xorglists.freedesktop.org/msg05439.html
> > > > >
> > > > > At least that's my understanding.
> > > > > I use the quick and wrong fix and r_gamma works again.
> > > >
> > > > Checking the bug report there is also (comment 10) a patch for SDL
> > > > to support xrandr gamma ramps. (Note X extensions are by no means
> > > > promised, relying on them for functionality means this happens if the
> > > > one you depend on becomes deprecated). Does that also work for you?
> > > >
> > > > -0-
> > > > --
> > > > It is not true that life is one damn thing after another -- it's one
> > > > damn thing over and over.
> > > > -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
> > >
> > > That patch works for me.
> > > So no need for the quick and wrong fix.
> > > I split the comment-10 patch into something that ports(7) can eat.
> > >
> > > Alf
> > >
> >
> >
> > I don't follow. please explain why *this port* needs SDL to have
> > patches. or does it affect other ports too? there are many ports
> > that use SDL.
> >
>
> Grepping over a (couple-of-months-old) unpacked ports src, the other
> ports using SDL that are in our tree don't use r_gamma. But from reading
> the other comments in the bug, if anything else was to start using it,
> it looks like they would need this patch too.

what I don't get is that not everyone is seeing this ... I tried this port
on a fresh install of -current.

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