Best way to test a patched xorg

[Alex Deucher]

On 2/10/06, Michael Stather <lists at michaelstather.com> wrote:
>  Alex Deucher schrieb:
>  On 2/9/06, Michael Stather <lists at michaelstather.com> wrote:
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>  I´d like to test a patched (GATOS TV-Out) version of the current X server.
> What´s the best distribution where I can recompile my x server without
> messing around with dependencies (on SuSE for example if I delete X I
> must delete KDE and all the other stuff).
>
>
>  Just rebuild the driver for your card (eg, radeon_drv.o or
> radeon_drv.so) and (after backing up your current version) copy the
> driver into place and restart you X server.
>
> Alex
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>  regards
>
> Michael
>
>
>  Which distributions is the best for that? The problem is that I don´t have
> the X sources included with my SuSE.
>

It doesn't really matter.  Just grab the Xorg tarballs for the version
of X included with you distro, unpack, patch, and rebuild.

Alex