20 EUR reward (PayPal) to the person who can get my external VGA to work properly

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 12:04:58PM +0200, Pierre Bauduin wrote:
> 2007/6/5, Hamish Moffatt <hamish at cloud.net.au>:
> >On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 07:53:40PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> >> Download and build it isn't that hard..
> >>
> >> git clone git://git.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati.git
> >> cd xf86-video-ati
> >> sh autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
> >> make
> >> make install
> >>
> >> You'll probably need a load of development packages I'm not sure what
> >> the superpackage is called..
> >
> >Start with "apt-get build-dep xserver-xorg-video-ati" to get the
> >build-dependencies for the current version.
> 
> Isn't there a "Debianesque" way to compile xf86-video-ati ?

Yes. Roughly speaking,

1. Get existing source package:
"apt-get source xserver-xorg-video-ati".

2. Get build-deps:
"apt-get build-dep xserver-video-ati".
"apt-get install build-essential fakeroot"

3. Suck down git sources into new directory as Dave says above.
> >> git clone git://git.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati.git

4. Apply the .diff.gz patch downloaded in step #1 to the sources you got
in step 3. Modify until the patch applies(!).

5. dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b to build it.



Hamish
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