Display Link Adapter Hot-Swapping with xorg-server 1.13.0 and xrandr 1.4

[Dave Airlie]

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Sam Lanning <sam at samlanning.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/04/2012 10:18 AM, Dave Airlie wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Sam Lanning <sam at samlanning.com> wrote:
>>> Hey Everyone,
>>>
>>> I'm new sending questions to this list so please forgive me. I wasn't sure
>>> whether this should be directed at the devel list or users list.
>>>
>>> I am trying to get my DisplayLink adapter working with my Dell Vostro 3700
>>> laptop. With nvidia optimus card.
>>>
>>> I came across Dave Airlie's work on hot-swapping slave USB gpus. And
>>> discovered his git repo on freedesktop.org
>>>
>>> http://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/prime-notes.txt
>>>
>>> I have tried to compile each of the parts (from the prime branch), but came
>>> across trouble with compiling a few of them.
>>>
>>> Mesa: The first problem occurred when i tried to autogen. It couldnt find a
>>> version of libdrm_nouveau greater than 0.6. I solved this with setting the
>>> environment variables:
>>>
>>> NOUVEAU_LIBS=/usr/lib/libdrm_nouveau2.so.2:/usr/lib/libdrm_nouveau2.so.2.0.0
>>> NOUVEAU_CFLAGS=empty
>>>
>>> so the make files were then generated fine.
>>>
>>> At compile time, make seems to get stuck in a loop constantly touching and
>>> rm-f ing depend. And entering and leaving the directory src/glsl/.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The second compile problem occurs when trying to create the make file for
>>> xf86-video-nouveau. It comes up with this error after running autogen.sh
>>>
>>> ./configure: line 11987: syntax error near unexpected token `RANDR,'
>>> ./configure: line 11987: `XORG_DRIVER_CHECK_EXT(RANDR, randrproto)'
>>>
>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>> Just get everything from upstream, nothing is in my personal branches
>> anymore. Everything should be released except for xrandr which you can
>> build from git.
>>
>> Dave.
>
> Ahh ok then,
>
> When i try and compile the current source from the repo
> git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xrandr i get some errors at
> compile time:
>
> xrandr.o: In function `main':
> .../xrandr.c:2969: undefined reference to `XRRSetProviderOffloadSink'
> .../xrandr.c:2965: undefined reference to `XRRSetProviderOutputSource'
> .../xrandr.c:3392: undefined reference to `XRRGetProviderResources'
> .../xrandr.c:3397: undefined reference to `XRRGetProviderInfo'
> .../xrandr.c:3404: undefined reference to `XRRFreeProviderInfo'
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

you need libXrandr.

Dave.