Re: Beryl - do I dare?

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

> Been there done that. Add the key this message is signed with to your
> APT keyring and add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list:
> 
> deb
> http://www.oakcourt.dyndns.org/~andrew/linux/powerbook/aiglx-zero-copy-tfp
>  ./
> # optionally
> deb-src
> http://www.oakcourt.dyndns.org/~andrew/linux/powerbook/aiglx-zero-copy-tfp
> ./
> 
> 512Kbps bandwidth max, however, so if it gets slow someone might have to
> mirror them.
> 
> Minor caveat: If you want things WRT to upgrades to work normally, pin
> that repository somehow. I haven't figured out an easy and sane way to
> keep packages I've made personal changes to higher up on APT's list than
> the official repos, and I followed policy with regards to non-maintainer
> uploads (6.5.2-3 to 6.5.2-3.1) and now aptitude/update-notifier wants to
> "upgrade" mesa to 6.5.2-4 in unstable. The only thing I have figured is
> to bump the epoch (2:6.5.2-3) which is a bit messy and won't always
> yield desired results, especially if I end up distributing the packages.

Thanks ! Well... actually I'm running ubuntu on that laptop so I won't
even try installing debian X packages but I though it would be useful to
others. I'll build my own X with patches one of these days.

Cheers,
Ben.