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

[Alex Deucher]

On 8/10/07, Leon Brokken <leon.brokken@med.lu.se> wrote:
> 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$

Argh! stupid git 1.5 (I'm still using 1.4).  I think this should work:

git checkout origin/randr-1.2

Alex