On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Alexander Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, I spent a bunch of time today .. and I followed the git_xorg.sh > script, and tweaked the libraries on my system ... and after six > hours, I actually arrived at a compiled Xorg server, etc etc in my > build directory ... So - I followed the instructions, something along > the lines of startx -- /path/to/Xorg ... and .. X even started! I'm > thinking "great! For a beginner, this is pretty awesome" ... > > Quickly, I realize that I have no keyboard support and no mouse > support. And the original purpose of this recompile (bugzilla bug # > 15708) also didn't appear resolved. >
Make sure you build and install the mouse and keyboard drivers too. > So - with hope, I turn to the mailing list with the following questions. > > 1) If I merely wish to try out the newest git pull of the ati driver > ... is there a short easy way to do so that avoid recompiling the > entire xserver kit - n - kaboodle? Just update your ati driver source and rebuilt it only against whatever xserver you want to use (either your old one or the new one you just built). > > 2) Secondly -- I tried to "hotswap" my old xserver with the new ati > .so files ... and expectedly this didn't work. The xserver log said > "ERR! We're version X and this appears to be version Y" ... So, I > deviously thought .. perhaps I could decrement the version number in > ... in a make file? in a configure script? .. in a macro include ... > Question # two is - just how does X know the version of what I'm > compiling .. I imagined I'd see "VERSION=1.2.3.4" ~somewhere~ ... but > I didn't. > At compile time the driver builds against the headers from a specific server. Alex _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
