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On Tuesday 05 August 2003 17:51, Terje Kvernes wrote: |
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> I have a few boxes at work that require these drivers[1] and I'm |
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> pondering on making them available through portage. |
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> there is a catch though. building the drivers requires either a |
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> full XFree-tarball-pack and building, or we can pick the binary |
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> drivers and install the appropriate ones. that _should_ work. |
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> lastly, we can include these SiS drivers when we build XFree, |
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> optionally via a "sis" USE flag. |
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> there is also an application, sisctrl, to fiddle with the drivers |
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> while X is running. this is "configure; make; make install", but it |
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> requires the correct drivers to be installed. then again, running |
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> sisctrl without the correct drivers does no harm. :-) |
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> any thoughts on how to go about this would be highly appreciated. |
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> [1] <url: http://www.winischhofer.net/linuxsisvga.shtml > |
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If you take a look at the xfree ebuild (4.3.0-r3 at least), you'll see that we |
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indeed obtain our sis driver from there: |
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http://www.winischhofer.net/sis/sis_drv_src_${SISDRV_VER}.tar.gz |
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Is that the same one? |
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Perhaps there's more to it than that. It doesn't look like we install the |
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sisctrl thing. |
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