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

[Dave Airlie]

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.