Re: Problems with running X on Acer Aspire 1353LC

[Bingen <bingen@menta.net>]

> After downloading the kernel 
> patch via-v4l-1.4a-drm.patch.gz I wanted to patch my kernel by using gunzip 
> -c /usr/via_patch ! patch -p1. But this operation failed.
> The bash output: 
> 2 out of 2 hunk ignored. 
> can't find file to patch at input line 17712  
> Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? Here i also tried -p0 
> The text leading up to this was: 

> diff -u -r -N --exclude='*.o`linux-2.6.0/drivers/char/drm/Makefile 
linux-2.6.0-gentoo/ 
> drivers/char/drm/Makefile 
> --- linux-2.6.0/drivers/char/drm/Makefile  2003-12-18 02:59:42.000000000 +0 
000
> +++ linux-2.6.0-gentoo/drivers/char/drm/Makefile 2003-12-22 17:52:04.0000 
00000 +0000

> File to patch: (No idea which File I have to select) 

Hi,

I'm linux newbie, but I had the same problem and this worked for me:
cd /usr/src/linux
gzip -dc via-v4l-1.4a-drm.patch.gz | patch -p 1

Take care of the whitespace after '-p'.

Good luck,

   ßingen.