[ltp] Re: radeon tv-out - same here

[Leon Brokken]

Alex Deucher wrote:
> On 8/10/07, Nils <linuxuser@knabber.homelinux.net> wrote:
>   
>>> You are not using the randr-1.2 branch of the ati git tree, you are
>>> using master. Once you've grabbed the ati git tree do:
>>>       
>>> git checkout randr-1.2
>>>       
>>> to switch to the randr branch.  then build as before.
>>>       
>> I think it's too complex for me :-(
>>     
>
> It's not too bad.
>
> 1. First make sure you back up the existing radeon (radeon_drv.so) and
> ati (ati_drv.so) drivers.
> 2. install the xorg-dev, mesa-dev, and xserver-dev packages for your distro
> 3. git-clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati
> 4. cd xf86-video-ati
> 5. git checkout randr-1.2
> or
> git checkout origin randr-1.2
> depending on what version of git you are using
> 6. ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
> 7. make
> 8. sudo make install
> or
> make install as root
>   
I'm following this thread with great interest ;-)

And facing the same difficulties:

leon@shpritsz:~/build/git$ git-clone
git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati
Initialized empty Git repository in
/home/leon/build/git/xf86-video-ati/.git/
remote: Generating pack...
remote: Done counting 5705 objects.
remote: Deltifying 5705 objects.
remote:  100% (5705/5705) done
Indexing 5705 objects...
remote: Total 5705 (delta 4513), reused 0 (delta 0)
 100% (5705/5705) done
Resolving 4513 deltas...
 100% (4513/4513) done

leon@shpritsz:~/build/git$ cd xf86-video-ati/
leon@shpritsz:~/build/git/xf86-video-ati$ git checkout randr-1.2
error: pathspec 'randr-1.2' did not match any file(s) known to git.
Did you forget to 'git add'?
leon@shpritsz:~/build/git/xf86-video-ati$ git checkout origin randr-1.2
error: pathspec 'randr-1.2' did not match any file(s) known to git.
Did you forget to 'git add'?
leon@shpritsz:~/build/git/xf86-video-ati$

Cheers, Leon.
> Alex
>