Mailinglist Archive: radeonhd (222 mails)

[George Hartzell <hartzell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I recently submitted a small bug report (#16281) describing goofyness
in how the radeonhd driver numbered the connectors on a ATI Radeon HD
2600 XT on a mac pro.

I tried the git port, the docs portion of which didn't cleanly build.
I ignored it for my purposes, experimented with the newer driver (just
built in src) and filed the bug.

I just got spanked for not reading the driver's README, when in fact I
had and it was neither directly relevant nor directly helpful.  I did
a bit more digging this morning and discovered what one needs to do to
get the build to work on my FreeBSD system.

As suggested in the README, I'm send the following two line patch to
the README to the mailing list.

As an aside, the git incantation that the README recommends for
generating patch files doesn't work with my git (1.5.5 on
FreeBSD-STABLE), I generated the patch with: 

  git-format-patch origin

Thanks,

g.


> From 11640d95499d6d7e948c888661762eb14763d3a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: George Hartzell <hartzell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 11:03:18 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Add a bit of info to the README to help FreeBSD users who are 
having
 trouble building the driver.

---
 README |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README b/README
index 851b6d3..29b9b68 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -161,6 +161,8 @@ Make sure you have all required X.org development packages 
installed. These
 may be called xorg-dev, xorg-x11-server-sdk and xorg-x11-util-macros, or
 something similar.
 
+If you're on a FreeBSD system, you probably need to install the 
+devel/xorg-macros port/package. 
 
 
 Getting and updating the radeonhd source code
-- 
1.5.5

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