20 EUR reward (PayPal) to the person who can get my external VGA to work properly

[Pierre Bauduin]

2007/6/5, Hamish Moffatt <hamish at cloud.net.au>:
>
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 12:04:58PM +0200, Pierre Bauduin wrote:
> > 2007/6/5, Hamish Moffatt <hamish at cloud.net.au>:
> > >On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 07:53:40PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> > >> Download and build it isn't that hard..
> > >>
> > >> git clone git://git.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-
> video-ati.git
> > >> cd xf86-video-ati
> > >> sh autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
> > >> make
> > >> make install
> > >>
> > >> You'll probably need a load of development packages I'm not sure what
> > >> the superpackage is called..
> > >
> > >Start with "apt-get build-dep xserver-xorg-video-ati" to get the
> > >build-dependencies for the current version.
> >
> > Isn't there a "Debianesque" way to compile xf86-video-ati ?
>
> Yes. Roughly speaking,
>
> 1. Get existing source package:
> "apt-get source xserver-xorg-video-ati".
>
> 2. Get build-deps:
> "apt-get build-dep xserver-video-ati".
> "apt-get install build-essential fakeroot"
>
> 3. Suck down git sources into new directory as Dave says above.
> > >> git clone git://git.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-
> video-ati.git
>
> 4. Apply the .diff.gz patch downloaded in step #1 to the sources you got
> in step 3. Modify until the patch applies(!).
>
> 5. dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b to build it.
>
>
>
> Hamish
> --
> Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish at debian.org> < hamish at cloud.net.au>
>

Thank you, Hamish.

People:
1) Right now I've got something very urgent to do, so I won't be able to
look into this problem till Tue Jun  5 15:00 CEST 2007
2) I've posted the Xorg.0.log on my website, here it is:
http://pierre.baudu.in/files/Xorg.0.log.ibook.20070506.1207

Thanks to all of you,
-- 
Pierre Bauduin
Linux enthusiast since 1996
Linux registered user #64711
Debian GNU/Linux user
website: http://pierre.baudu.in/
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