Bug#436336: Ugh, incorrect problem description.

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Joshua Rodman wrote:
> They're entirely black, fwiw.  Or maybe my monitor just shows black, but
> as an LCD it's very good about telling me when it's unhappy about the
> signal.  Usually.
>
> So I'm not sure if they're corrupted or just a valid text display with
> nothing in them, or what.
>   

Ok, and I guess VT works fine during boot, i.e. before X starts, right?

> I wish I knew how.  The last time I went down that path I found I needed
> to build a very large amount of X to make everything happy, and then I
> had some trouble figuring out how to install it into my system, and so
> was running it out of a build directory but had permissions problems
> with log files ... suffice to say I was in a little over my head.
>
> Can I build just the xserver-xorg-video-intel component without
> requiring the rest of the tree?  I can do a little self help given some
> links.
>   

Since there is a single file to install, we can just build the upstream
source and install manually. No need to build anything else or create
some packages.

You'll need some development headers/libs:
    $ apt-get build-dep xserver-xorg-video-intel
Then you can grab the git tree with:
    $ git clone
git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel
Then you enter it and build with
    $ ./autogen.sh
    $ make
If it complains about some macros being undef, you might need to install
xutils-dev or so. Let me know.

Once it is built, copy src/.libs/intel_drv.so in
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ and restart X (logout/login is usually
not enough, ctrl-alt-backspace or xdm/gdm restart is ok).

Thanks a lot,
Brice