On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 06:40 +0000, Digby Tarvin wrote: > It looks like the X.org display driver for the AMD Geode LX I am > installing on hasn't made it into a deb package yet - though I > have found it in the list of requested packages here: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=400748 > and what looks like the sources here: > http://dl.exactcode.de/oss/xorg/ > > Can anyone point me at any instructions/tutorial/suggestions re > what is required to get a driver going for hardware that is supported > by Xorg but not yet by Debian? Has anyone else done it? The driver > does appear to have made it into Ubuntu, but didn't find any debian > packages (unofficial or Sid) with a google search - if anyone knows > of a source that it missed, please let me know. > > Is it a case of installing the Debian Xorg source package and > adding the relevent driver source to the tree and then doing a > build? Getting the sources for the Ubuntu package and rebuilding it with Debian packages is my advice. I don't think you need to build all of Xorg from scratch, wasn't that the whole point of a modular X? -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22
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