Re: randr under nv
hi david,
On 1/19/06, David Nusinow <david_nusinow@verizon.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 04:48:24PM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > see an upstream bug report here
> > (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4708) that seems to show a
> > patched nv driver available in upstream. Can anyone guide me on e.g.
> > installing just the updated nv driver, or whatever else needs to be done
> > to enable randr? I'm hardly an x developer, and am exceedingly loathe to
> > mess with my otherwise perfectly functioning x setup.
>
> With the current source packages, it's do-able but a bit of a pain. You'll
> basically have to patch the nv sources in the monolithic tree we provide
> and build the thing from scratch. Not fun, but it's something I do all the
> time more or less :-)
>
> Alternately, you can wait for (or help out on!) the modular packages which
> will make it so you just patch the nv driver package and build it all by
> itself. These packages are a little ways off from unstable right now, so if
> you really need randr now just get the monolith, patch, and build. If
> you're just fiddling around but don't feel like fiddling that much, I'd
> hold off.
>
> - David Nusinow
>
well... I guess I'm just fiddling, so I'll wait. Don't know how much
I can really do to help -- I suppose I can test a bit once the
packages start getting built-- I mean, I can type "make" and "make
install" at the command prompt, but I'm not really sure what they DO,
and I can't read C.
but I'll lurk on the list for a month or so, try to learn a bit, and
work towards feeling confident about buildingthe driver package at
least!
thanks much, can't say enough times how much I appreciate the x strike
force, x has been a dream lately.
matt
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