hi david, On 1/19/06, David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 04:48:24PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > hi, > > > > see an upstream bug report here > > (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4708) that seems to show a > > patched nv driver available in upstream. Can anyone guide me on e.g. > > installing just the updated nv driver, or whatever else needs to be done > > to enable randr? I'm hardly an x developer, and am exceedingly loathe to > > mess with my otherwise perfectly functioning x setup. > > With the current source packages, it's do-able but a bit of a pain. You'll > basically have to patch the nv sources in the monolithic tree we provide > and build the thing from scratch. Not fun, but it's something I do all the > time more or less :-) > > Alternately, you can wait for (or help out on!) the modular packages which > will make it so you just patch the nv driver package and build it all by > itself. These packages are a little ways off from unstable right now, so if > you really need randr now just get the monolith, patch, and build. If > you're just fiddling around but don't feel like fiddling that much, I'd > hold off. > > - David Nusinow >
well... I guess I'm just fiddling, so I'll wait. Don't know how much I can really do to help -- I suppose I can test a bit once the packages start getting built-- I mean, I can type "make" and "make install" at the command prompt, but I'm not really sure what they DO, and I can't read C. but I'll lurk on the list for a month or so, try to learn a bit, and work towards feeling confident about buildingthe driver package at least! thanks much, can't say enough times how much I appreciate the x strike force, x has been a dream lately. matt > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
