Bug#422777: bug #422777 prematurely closed

[Michel Dänzer]

On Sat, 2007-06-30 at 06:03 +0200, Felix C. Stegerman wrote:
> >
> > Your problem looks like
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9816 , can you try the
> > patch I attached there?
> 
> I tried.  It didn't fix the problem.  Thanks anyway.
> 
> Of course, my knowledge of package building is limited [as I'm not a
> dd (yet)], so I could have messed something up.  Here's what I did:
> 
>   * $ apt-get source xserver-xorg-video-ati=1:6.6.192-1
>   * add patch as debian/patches/03_radeon_driver.diff
>   * add patch to debian/patches/series
>   * $ dch -n
>   * install build dependencies
>   * $ dpkg-buildpackage
>   * upgrade all xorg packages to the latest versions in unstable
>   * $ sudo dpkg -i <package>
>   * restart X
>   * [no image on CRT2]

The procedure basically sounds good to me, but did you verify that the
patched file has the line changed according to the patch after
dpkg-buildpackage? Also, is there any difference in the X log file with
or without the patch?


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