Michael Paterek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Firstly, I am relatively new to OpenSolaris (have used RedHat Linux a few
> years back at university but not a huge amount, enough to do some coding but
> never got as far as, say, building my own drivers from source) so please
> excuse any stupid questions / comments.
>
> I installed 2009.06 recently and got most things to run as I want them but my
> monitor won't display at the native resolution (1650 x 1080). According to
> some info (http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=372631) it's
> because OS 2009.06 uses the radeonhd 1.2.4 and ati 6.10.x driver and I need
> xf86-video-radeonhd 1.2.5 and ati 6.12.2 drivers.
>
> So, I find xf86-video-ati-6.12.2.tar.gz in
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati. I download it, I
> unzip and untar to a temporary directory. I believe the next step is to use
> autogen (I downloaded a bunch build tools using the package manager,
> including GNU automake). So, I go into the directory and type
>
> ./autogen.sh
You don't want to run autogen.sh unless you have a full X.Org build
environment installed and want to regenerate the configure script that
comes with the tarball - to just build the sources in the tarball,
unpack a clean copy and run:
./configure --prefix=/usr/X11
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
