Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: > I compiled xf86-video-intel-2.6.99.902 from upstream. It also didn't > have the sync fix. But it was the only version to which the sync patch > applied cleanly (2.6.1 and 2.6.3 had a few hunks failing). The 'make > install' put the modules went into /usr/local/lib/xorg/ >
Don't use make install. Just copy src/.libs/intel.so into /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ (after having moved the old intel.so from there). > I cannot quite figure out how to run the regular server (1.4.2) but with > the latest intel driver. I tried adding a vt8 line to the end of > /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers > > :0 local /usr/bin/X :0 vt7 -nolisten tcp > :1 local /usr/bin/Xorg :0 vt8 -nolisten tcp -modulepath > /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/,/usr/lib/xorg/modules > Don't use multiple X servers when debugging things like this since some 2-server-related problems may appear. Just restart the main X after installing the new driver as explained above, and check in the log that the right intel driver version is found. Brice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
