[ltp] R51: ATI powerplay support for XFree86 4.3 ??

[Thomas Breitner]

Am Donnerstag, den 17.03.2005, 16:33 -0500 schrieb Alex Deucher:=20
> On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 21:17:48 +0000, Florian Dorpmueller
> <dorpmueller@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Alex,
> >=20
> > I found the sources of XFree86. Can you give me some more
> instructions how
> > to backport powerplay support (which files to change, how to build
> the
> > drivers..)? I will try to build them and perhaps later provide the
> result
> > here.
>=20
> these patches should pretty much give you what you need.
>=20
> initial patch I applied to xorg:
> http://www.botchco.com/alex/xorg/dynamicclocks.diff
> fix some bugs with the above patch:
> http://www.botchco.com/alex/xorg/dynclocks.patch
>=20
> let me know if you have any questions.
>=20
> Alex

Hi Alex,

I've got the same *problem*, got the
debian-sarge-xserver-xfree86-sources and *found* the debian-patch-dir:
xfree86-4.3.0.dfsg.1/debian/patches/

with tons (198) of debian-patches in it. There must be some kind of
*naming-scheme*, like: 099o_ati_radeon_fix_SEGV_in_display_query.diff.

I'm not familiar with modifying these deb's, but perhaps it is as simple
as putting own patches with correct name in this dir and recompile/build
the *patched* deb.
Some debianers here? please correct me and post some hints about how to
do it the debian way...

Ok, if my assumptions are true, it would be easier when we get your
patchset combined in only one patch(?). Is this possible?

Greetings,
thomas

PS: Hi Flori,
glad to have someone here to share our problem!
For grabbing the (debian)sources for your system, you can use apt. You
only need one more line in your sources.list (in case of sarge like
this):
deb-src http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian-non-US/ sarge/non-US main
contrib non-free

Now you can grab the corresponding source-package for your running
binaries by:
apt-get source <package name>

Greetings from Freiburg,
thomas

>=20
> >=20
> > Greetings,
> > Flori
> >=20
> > >From: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>
> > >Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
> > >To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
> > >Subject: Re: [ltp] R51: ATI powerplay support for XFree86 4.3 ??
> > >Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 14:09:17 -0500
> > >
> > >On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 09:22:10 +0100, Dorpm=C3=BCller
> <dorpmueller@hotmail.com>
> > >wrote:
> > > > For you it might be an easy job. For me .. I never did hard
> proramming
> > >until
> > > > yet. Please would you provide some more information e.g. where
> to find
> > >the
> > > > sources, which file has to be changed ..
> > > >
> > > > Do I need the whole sources of XFree86? ftp://debian.org doesn=C2=
=B4t
> have a
> > >tar
> > > > source package, but I found one in
> > > >
> >
> >http://www.debian-desktop.org/pub/linux/debian/xfree86-4.3.99pre10/dists=
/sar
> > > > ge/main/source/.
> > >
> > >I dunno where to grab debian's xfree86 source.  It may be easier
> for
> > >you to just grab a deb package for xorg and upgrade.  perhaps
> ubuntu's
> > >6.8.x packages.  But yes, you will need the whole source.  If you
> are
> > >goign to rebuild X from source you might want to just build xorg.
> I
> > >don't have time to backport the code to 4.3.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > And on http://www.botchco.com/alex/radeon/dynamicPM/ I found
> several
> > >drivers
> > > > but none for XFree86 4.3?
> > >
> > >that stuff is pretty old.  I ought to take that down.
> > >
> > >Alex
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Flori
> > > >
> > > > > From: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>
> > > > > Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
> > > > > Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:22:52 -0500
> > > > > To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
> > > > > Subject: Re: [ltp] R51: ATI powerplay support for XFree86
> 4.3 ??
> > > > >
> > > > > you'd probably have to backport the changes to xorg.  it
> shouldn't be
> > > > > too hard, you just need to copy over the setdynamicclocks()
> function
> > > > > and associated register and options bits, then rebuild the
> radeon
> > > > > driver.
> > > > >
> > > > > Alex
> > > >
> > >--
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> >
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