Bug#489312: xserver-xorg-video-ati: Still happening

[Alex Deucher]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Jö Fahlke <jorrit at jorrit.de> wrote:
> Am Tue, 12. Aug 2008, 10:07:10 -0400 schrieb Alex Deucher:
>> RIght, but I asked about the 6.8.191 release candidates, not 6.9.0+ :)
>>  There were changes during the release candidate series that may be
>> related.  Hence if you could test a 6.8.191 rc release, that would
>> help me narrow down the problem.
>
> Are there packages available somewhere, or do I have to compile myself?  Where
> exactly would I get the original sources?  I've seen things like
>
>  git clone git://git.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel
>
> but I'm a bit confused because of the "xf86" part, I would expect "xorg" or
> similar instead.
>

I'm not sure if debian still has packages of the rc releases
available.  if not, you will have to build from source. The xf86 is a
vestige of the fact that these drivers originally came from xfree86
and the API's the implement were mostly from the xfree86 days.  Also,
remember to backup your original
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so.
Pull from git:
git clone git://git.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati
checkout 6.8.191 by tag name:
git checkout -f xf86-video-ati-6.8.191
configure:
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
make:
make
install (as root):
make install

Alex