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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