965GM + Latitude D830 = Fuzzy
Mike Laiosa
mikel+xorg at ghs.com
Wed Jul 4 20:17:23 PDT 2007
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 06:54:43PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 4, 2007 at 09:44:46 -0700, Mike Laiosa wrote:
>
> > Thanks for your responses guys. I'm now having the problem below. Do I
> > really need xorg 1.3 to build (and presumably use) the driver? Both my
> > autoconf and git skills are somewhat lacking, but it looks like I need
> > either a xf86Modes.h in the driver source tree, or the newer X server.
> > However, when I downloaded the driver source, it didn't pull in an
> > xf86Modes.h. Am I doing something totally wrong here? Is there a
> > (straightforward) way to just build with 1.2.0?
> >
> To build against xserver 1.2, you need the hw/xfree86/modes and
> hw/xfree86/parser directories from xserver >= 1.3 at build time. These
> are included in the driver release tarballs, but not in the git
> repository. The driver should then run fine with an earlier server,
> AFAIK.
Thanks to everyone who helped on this. I got the latest driver from git
built, and it works great! Now I can use my shiney new laptop without
getting a headache.
Mike
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