On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 19:49 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 07:15:29PM +0200, Sebastian Dröge 
> <sl...@circular-chaos.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 19:11 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > > Le jeudi 09 septembre 2010 à 18:54 +0200, Mike Hommey a écrit :
> > > > > I suggest we remove this “fix” according to the last commends in
> > > > > #495620.
> > > > 
> > > > Great, so now we have the choice between CPU usage going up, or
> > > > iceweasel becoming unuseable thanks to X.org driver bugs...
> > > > 
> > > > Please don't tell me I should start using the bundled version of
> > > > cairo...
> > > 
> > > Could we at least circumvent the damage to iceweasel? This could be done
> > > in the ugly way by checking an environment variable that is set only by
> > > iceweasel.
> > 
> > Yes, inverting the logic of the Mozilla cairo patch and then setting an
> > environment variable in iceweasel seems to be the best idea so far.
> 
> Except it will also propagate to any application launched from iceweasel.
> Still better, but still half broken.

Maybe you can unset it again for applications started from iceweasel ;)

> > And after squeeze release I'll immediately revert this annoying patch
> > again...
> 
> Do you want to bet it will again be needed on wheezy ?

I still hope that at some point someone is annoyed enough to get the
drivers fixed... or the hardware for these drivers disappears. We'll see

> While you're here, if you have ideas for #595200 and #593844...

Sorry, unfortunately not. Otherwise I would've written something in
those bugs already...

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