[Xorg-driver-geode] [ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-geode 2.11.3

[Justin Smith]

Please ignore my BadAlloc error message. It seems it was some other
kernel module causing this.

Justin

On 6/19/09, Justin Smith <justinsmith2009 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Martin-Eric,
>
> I will try the approach you have suggested for debuild. I just wanted
> to give quick feedback on the release, as I found the following issues
> that have been lingering for a while.
>
> 1. If I am playing a video in 24 bit color depth, then I keep getting
> errors on screen related to BadAlloc. This issue has been 11.x - which
> is why I am still on 2.10.x driver.
>
> 2. I am able to get the video to play in 16 bit color depth, but then
> I start seeing tearing effects on videos.
>
> Does anybody have some insight on where these issues might be, and
> maybe create a patch for this?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Justin
>
> On 6/19/09, Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk at iki.fi> wrote:
>> 2009/6/20 Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk at iki.fi>:
>>> On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 12:16 AM, Justin
>>> Smith<justinsmith2009 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> On 6/19/09, Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk at iki.fi> wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Justin
>>>>> Smith<justinsmith2009 at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> When I try compiling on Ubuntu Hardy, I get the following error:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ../libtool: line 467: CDPATH: command not found
>>>>>> ../libtool: line 1145: func_opt_split: command not found
>>>>>> libtool: Version mismatch error.  This is libtool 2.2.6, but the
>>>>>> libtool: definition of this LT_INIT comes from an older release.
>>>>>> libtool: You should recreate aclocal.m4 with macros from libtool
>>>>>> 2.2.6
>>>>>> libtool: and run autoconf again.
>>>>>> make[2]: *** [geode_driver.lo] Error 63
>>>>>> make[2]: Leaving directory
>>>>>> `/home/tester/workspace/geode/xf86-video-geode-2.11.3/src'
>>>>>> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>>>>>> make[1]: Leaving directory
>>>>>> `/home/tester/workspace/geode/xf86-video-geode-2.11.3'
>>>>>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>>>>>
>>>>> You probably need to run ./autogen.sh to re-generate dependencies
>>>>> suitable for Hardy:
>>>>>
>>>>> $ sudo aptitude -y install autoconf automake libtool
>>>>> $ sudo apt-get -y build-dep xserver-xorg-video-geode
>>>>> $ cd xserver-xorg-video-geode-2.11.3
>>>>> $ ./autogen.sh
>>>>> $ debuild -uc -us
>>>>>
>>>>> Please try this and let us know if it worked.
>>>>
>>>> I am using standard tarball from the link Chris sent in the email. So
>>>> debuild doesn't work.
>>>>
>>>> However, that prompted me to do a git clone and compile, that seems to
>>>> compile fine.
>>>
>>> You can try with this:
>>>
>>> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/x/xserver-xorg-video-geode/
>>>
>>> To unpack it, use:
>>
>> $ dget
>> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/x/xserver-xorg-video-geode/xserver-xorg-video-geode_2.11.3-1.dsc
>>
>> then
>>
>>> $ dpkg-source -x xserver-xorg-video-geode_2.11.3-1.dsc
>>>
>>> Then re-libtoolize as show above.
>>>
>>> Martin-Éric
>>>
>>
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