Help building XFree86 4.3.0 from debian sources.

[Colin Alie <calie@uwaterloo.ca>]

Hello everyone,

I'm new to the list.  Please excuse me if this question has been asked and answered before.  I'm trying to build ati.2 w/ tv_output for sarge i686.  From my understanding, I first need to build xfree86.  These are the steps I followed:

- obtain source: $ apt-get source xfree86
- enter root of source tree:  $ cd xfree86-4.3.0.dfsg.1
- build source:  $ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b

Things appear to be working until about a third of the way into patching the source when the following output appears:

  Applying patch debian/patches/101b_xkb_sun_loads_srvr_ctrl.diff ... failed! (check stampdir/log/patches/101b_xkb_sun_loads_srvr_ctrl.diff for reason)

The file "stampdir/log/patches/101b_xkb_sun_loads_srvr_ctrl.diff" contains the following:

  patching file xc/programs/xkbcomp/symbols/sun/se
  patching file xc/programs/xkbcomp/symbols/sun/us
  Hunk #1 succeeded at 100 with fuzz 1 (offset 1 line).
  Hunk #2 succeeded at 221 with fuzz 2 (offset 1 line).
  Hunk #3 FAILED at 330.
  1 out of 3 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file xc/programs/xkbcomp/symbols/sun/us.rej

Finally, file "xc/programs/xkbcomp/symbols/sun/us.rej" is as follows:

  ***************
  *** 324,329 ****
        key <CUT>  { [ SunCut     ],      [ F20           ]       };
        key <HELP> { [ Help               ]       };
  
        // begin modifier mappings
        modifier_map Shift { Shift_R };
        modifier_map Mod1  { Meta_L, Meta_R };
  --- 330,338 ----
        key <CUT>  { [ SunCut     ],      [ F20           ]       };
        key <HELP> { [ Help               ]       };
 
  +     // Override these settings by default xfree86 Ctrl+Alt combinations
  +     include "srvr_ctrl(xfree86)"
  +
        // begin modifier mappings
        modifier_map Shift { Shift_R };
        modifier_map Mod1  { Meta_L, Meta_R };

I have a hunch that my problem could be solved by someting as easy as setting an environment variable but I haven't been able to find any guidance.  I've been able to build vanilla XFree86 and Xorg in the past and present but I've never had the experience of building the X server from the debian sources.  Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Until next time, Colin.

-- 
Colin Alie BSc, MASc
PhD Candidate
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Waterlo
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1

calie@uwaterloo.ca