On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 11:31:50AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > Dear Branden, > > I spent some hours with fiddling latest changes of UPSTREAM's i830.h and > i830_driver.c into xfree86-4.3.0-2 to get some machines with Intel's > 865G chip working again. > Well, it seems I've succeeded. > Basically, what i've done is merge all changes from upstream into > debian's source. (I've reverted > http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/i810/i830_driver.c.diff?r1=1.36&r2=1.37 > because I got a build error I could not workaround with my little > knowledge) > > I will attach both patches (the first brings i830.h in shape, the other > one i830_driver.c) > I have succesfully (short...) tested the resulting .debs on i845G and > i865G hardware, X is working again on 865g now. > > If you'd (or any other "patchmaster" here on the list) find some time to > review the patches and pull the nessessary changes into your svn > repository - that would be nice. Fortunately, these files were not relicensed to use the new XFree86 1.1 license, which is not GPL-compatible, which may not be DFSG-free, and which there seems to be consensus to keep out of Debian's XFree86 packages. (I proposed the latter as policy to this mailing list, and no one has yet objected.) Thanks again! -- G. Branden Robinson | You don't just decide to break Debian GNU/Linux | Kubrick's code of silence and then branden@debian.org | get drawn away from it to a http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | discussion about cough medicine.
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