On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 11:26:54PM +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > Thanks for your mail. I've read the hacking-document and built the xfree86 > packages from source. On the other hand I have no clue how to add the > new driver. I'm not familiar with the build-system at all and generally > know very little about XFree86. ;( > I have looked at both the freedesktop.org i915 driver which was mentioned > earlier in this bugreport and the xfree86.org driver in cvs that's > supposed to support i9xx. Are they the same? Doesn't look like that > judging from the different files in each directory. > > http://freedesktop.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/mesa/Mesa/src/mesa/drivers/dri/ > http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/i810/ > > I was hoping to get some help from the xfree86.org side on the build > system but now I don't know if I can use anything from xfree86.org.... Well, *you* can if you'd like, but Debian can't. > If anyone could help me out on how to add the driver that would be > great. I'll investigate further later on but don't really know > if I'll manage this task on my own... A driver is a tricky thing to patch. What will probably need to happen is that someone experienced with such things will need to do the development half of things, and rely on you to do the testing half. -- G. Branden Robinson | Religion consists in a set of Debian GNU/Linux | things which the average man thinks branden@debian.org | he believes and wishes he was http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | certain of. -- Mark Twain
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