[ubuntu-x] Help building intel driver

[Tormod Volden]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Geir Ove Myhr <gomyhr at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you for the help. I was able to apply the patch to the commit
> before 8d4bc36fae50b09a73ba2cfab920adb32141a358 and compile. Reverting
> 8d4bc... gave conflicts, so that didn't work, and debuild -b -us -uc
> on the current package did not work either (error at the end for
> reference).
>
> It looks like the patch didn't work, but I just want to make sure I
> didn't screw up anything. I did:
> - add xorg-edgers PPA to /etc/apt/sources.d, and upgraded
> - apt-get build-dep xserver-xorg-video-intel
> - ./autogen.sh (in source tree)
> - ./configure --prefix=/usr
> - make
> - sudo make install >makeinstall.log
>
> It seems that this should have copied the driver to the right place. I
> did this first without the patch, rebooted the computer and checked
> that everything looked normal (bug still there). Then I applied the
> patch and ran make (only a few files were compiled again then of
> course) and make install again. On reboot, nothing had changed.
>
> Did I do something wrong here, or can I report back that the patch didn't work?

Seems correct to me. But when you say that you add the PPA, do you add
the sources (deb-src) as well? Since the xorg-edgers -intel driver is
fresh from git master, you could also have downloaded the xorg-edgers
source package, and applied the patch here. It should then build with
debuild, and you can install the generated .deb packages.

Anyway, I added the patch in question to today's xorg-edgers -intel
package, so you can download a ready .deb from the PPA to verify it.

Cheers,
Tormod