[Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#476474: Backport of fglrx 8.47.3-3 from Lenny works nicely with etchnhalf

[Romain Beauxis]

	Hi !

Thanks for testing and reporting !

A backport is currently being uploaded to backports.org :-)


Romain

Le Thursday 08 May 2008 22:15:26 Stuart Prescott, vous avez écrit :
> Hi all,
>
> I took a deep breath the other day and installed the etchnhalf packages
> from etch-proposed-updates on my laptop. (Dell Inspiron 6400 with ATI
> X1400).
>
> What I did is sketched out below [1]. I now have a nice etchnhalf kernel
> with fglrx working quite happily. 3D acceleration is working and it seems
> to be surviving suspend-to-disk cycles without any hassles either (which
> was one of the things I was seeking to improve with this exercise).
>
> I hope this is useful information for you. It at least tells you that it's
> all possible even if some of the details below are a little scant and you
> would obviously do things slightly differently for backports.org.
>
> Please let me know if I can provide further information.
>
> cheers
> Stuart
>
> ---- fglrx lenny->etchnhalf log ----
>
> # Install etchnhalf kernel and kernel headers
> aptitude install linux-image-2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686 \
> 			linux-headers-2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686
>
> # reboot into new kernel, cross fingers
> reboot
>
> # dance around the room when it all seems to come up working OK.
> laptop
>
> # install build-deps for Lenny's fglrx-driver [2]
> apt-get install x11proto-core-dev libx11-dev libxtst-dev \
> 		libxxf86misc-dev libxxf86vm-dev libxinerama-dev \
> 		docbook-xml docbook-xsl xsltproc rpl
>
> # build a backport of the fglrx-driver [3]
> apt-get -b source -t testing fglrx-driver
>
> # pull the kernel module from Lenny too and build it
> apt-get install -t testing fglrx-kernel-src
> m-a build fglrx-kernel-src
>
> # install the lot
> dpkg -i fglrx-driver_8.47.3-3_i386.deb \
>  		fglrx-glx_8.47.3-3_i386.deb \
> 		/usr/src/fglrx-kernel-2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686_8.47.3-3+2.6.24-6~etchnhalf.
>1_i386.deb
>
> # load module, start x etc as per normal
>
>
>
> [1] Apologies... this is only an approximate log as it wasn't entirely as
> linear as this and I was also futzing with getting iwlwifi to work in place
> of ipw3945 which confuses things a little too. In any case, it shows that
> it is possible to get Lenny's fglrx working with etch's xorg which is the
> main issue here.
>
> [2] I can't recall why I didn't just apt-get build-dep here...
>
> [3] Yeah, OK... dch --bpo etc would be preferable.
>
> ----
> Final state:
>
> $ dpkg -l fglrx* linux-image* xserver-xorg | grep ^ii
>
> ii  fglrx-driver                        8.47.3-3
> non-free AMD/ATI r5xx, r6xx display driver
> ii  fglrx-glx                           8.47.3-3
> proprietary libGL for the non-free AMD/ATI r
> ii  fglrx-kernel-2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686 8.47.3-3+2.6.24-6~etchnhalf.1  ATI
> binary kernel module for Linux 2.6.24-et
> ii  fglrx-kernel-src                    8.47.3-3                      
> kernel module source for the non-free AMD/AT
> ii  linux-image-2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686  2.6.24-6~etchnhalf.1          
> Linux 2.6.24 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/
> ii  xserver-xorg                        7.1.0-19                       the
> X.Org X server



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