Re: Building XFree 4.3
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 11:28:01PM +0000, . . wrote:
> >>Hi everyone I'm tring to build Xfree 4.3 on my debian system because I
> >>need a patch to the siliconmotion driver that has only been committed in
> >>4.3.99.
> >>
> >>I'm trying two separate paths, and I'm stuck in either.
>
> >If you send us a diff, we can include it in the next release. Why do you
> >need this patch?
>
> It's a bug affecting support for an external monitor. You can find more
> info (and the patch itself)
> at http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=727. It could be very handy if
> you could backport it ;-)
I really doubt that they would be back porting it, rather they'd probably
add it to the work they're doing to get 4.3 packaged for sarge (it's
currently in experemental -- so be careful before you try it!)
Mike
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