From: Marcelo E. M. <mar...@bi...> - 2001-06-01 12:15:13
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>> Michel Dänzer <mic...@ii...> writes: > > I used the debs provided by Zephanian and compiled a new mga kernel > > module from dri.sourceforge.net and everything is working great. > > He also provides a drm-module-src package to build the DRM. Attached is a diff that enables the use of drm-module-src with kernel-package, that is, 'fakeroot make-kpkg modules-image' or the like[0], to produce: Package: drm-2.4.5-ac2 Status: install ok installed ... Description: Direct Rendering Manager kernel modules ... To avoid Ugly Unreliable Stuff(TM) in debian/rules, this depends on a small patch for Makefile.linux and picker.c (also included in the diff). The version in debian/changelog is (probably) bogus, but that didn't bother me at the time. The version is driver dependant (e.g. 3.0.2 for MGA vs. 1.1.1 for Radeon). It'd be best if Zephaniah's build scripts just tag drm/debian/changelog with the same version as the other debs. Actually it'd be neat to have this as part of the official xfree86 debs, but I'm not kin to hopeless fights... [0] alas, fakeroot is broken in unstable, either undo the patch by Ben Collins[1] or don't use fakeroot at all. [1] edit the fakeroot script, drop LD_LIBRARY_PATH and stick the path in LD_PRELOAD |