new nv driver. please test!

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto]

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 21:45 +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
> > On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote:
> >
> > > If you let me download a ppc version I will try it with my iMac.
> >
> > Sorry.. i don't have a ppc to build on. If you think your box can spare
> > 5GB of disk to build X i will send you the patch.
> >
> > The only reason why i am not distributing it around is that it is still
> > hackish and X will fail some basic tests to build a full debian package.
>
> If you give me an easy to follow instructions (I cannot waste too much
> time on it, rosetta, you know), I could compile it myself. I will be
> around all night and I'm not using that machine now.

Of course that would be great. Even in a couple of days. A build on amd64
would be nice too:

apt-get source xfree86
apt-get build-dep xfree86
wget http://people.no-name-yet.com/991_ubuntu_update_nv_driver_from_xorg.diff
move the patch into debian/patches
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -us -B -b
[SNIP]
everything will build but you will get an error on install for a MANIFEST
file check failed (given that the driver will compile on ppc). Otherwise
report the error.
No phear.. the driver is compiled but there are no debian packages.

your nv_drv.o is in build-tree/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/free86/driver/nv/

Take that file ans proceed as i described in the previous email.

Thanks
Fabio

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