xorg can't load qxl driver

[Dan Nicholson]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Brian Milliron <brianm at io.com> wrote:
> Liang,
>
> I got my x windows back.  I had to delete the qxl driver and copy over a
> backup of the xorg.conf file I made, but I have restored my system to a
> working state.
>
> However, it seems manually editing the source code for that driver is a
> bad idea. :)  If I were going to apply the patch as it is intended,
> would that be done through git?  I don't see a .patch file in that
> archive so I don't think I can use the patch command to do it.  Or would
> I use diff to create a .patch file?

This link gets you a patch:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-qxl/patch/?id=563f31ad081038ece8b5a5b525dd516fcd6ad0fd

Or you can just clone the driver from git and build it using
./autogen.sh. There are very few differences from the tarball.

--
Dan