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[Ole Eskildsen <ole.developer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Martin,

Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately, I, who am not a systems programmer, gets a bit confused when I display a log file like /var/log/Xorg.0.log!
What exactly do I look for when trying to determine which verson of openchrome I have installed?

The situation is, of course, that when I installed Ubuntu 9.04 I
installed the current openchrome video driver, whichever one that is. It
worked except there was a problem which someone the published a patch
for. As you indicate, a patch is not a new driver incl. driver version
number, but merely a few instructions in the existing installed driver
which get changed. That also introduces some real risks in that, the
changed driver may fix one problem but it could potentially create new
problems which nobody have yet discovered. But I (and others) trusted
the programmer and applied the patch and it did work.

Great so far, but what happens when we get the next version of Linux? We
non-tech guys haven't got a clue whether the driver we patched is part
of the new Linux version. If it is and has not been fixed, then we are
back to the same situation again.

Therefore you make a good suggestion, that we report a bug to the kernel
team! BUT we don't even know whether the driver is part of the kernel or
how to find out and, if it is, how to address the bug to the kernel
team!

So, I have got down on my knees now and I beg you to help us find the
answers to those questions and help us to report it to the kernel team
if that is what should be done.

Thank you in advance for your help, and thank you for your help so far.

Cheers,

Ole down-under

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