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[Bryce Harrington <bryce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I understand people's frustration that this is not looking likely to
make it into Karmic given the time remaining, but instead of fretting
about it please realize there is still a window of opportunity for
inclusion, so it would be much more productive to go find hardware or
friends with hardware running drivers beyond fglrx, have them test the
patch and give results here.  We will need test results both against KDE
and GNOME.

In case you don't understand my caution - this patch is to fix a problem
specific to fglrx but it is against xorg-server so affects code used by
ALL drivers.  Given that there have been confirmed reports about memory
leaks occurring from this patch, my concern is that this could
potentially introduce memory leaks for all users.  If this were to
occur, it might improve things for a few users but would degrade Ubuntu
for the vast majority, which personally I think would be unfortunate.

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