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

[Sam Lanning]

On 11/04/2012 10:12 PM, Dave Airlie wrote:
> 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.
Ok this is weird, I have compiled and installed the latest libXrandr
package (1.4) and checked and the file
/usr/local/include/X11/extensions/Xrandr.h exists. Which it does, and it
is the latest version. But i am still getting the same errors...

Sam.