Re: X -configure seems to choose wrong driver for CT65555 video hardware

beasley wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 08:47 +0200, Matthieu Herrb wrote:
>> Matthieu Herrb wrote:
>>> beasley wrote:
>>> [Lots of test reports]
>>>
>>> Thanks for all this data. I think I now have an idea where the problem
>>> is. I'll try to send you a patch to test later today.
>>>
>> Here's the patch to test.
>>
> 
> Thanks very much for the patch.
> 
> I reinstalled my 4.6 snapshot (from 6/26/2009) from the CD I'd burned
> previously. I used cvs this morning (6/30/2009) to fetch the current
> source tree contents of src, ports, and xenocara from a secondary
> mirror. So I should have extremely fresh source bits now.
> 
> I changed to /usr/xenocara/driver/xf86-video-chips and applied
> your patch there with no problems.
> 
> I'm now prepared to rebuild everything: kernel, reboot with new kernel,
> userland, and then xenocara ... but this will take quite a long time on
> this old laptop (probably about 40-45 hours). So perhaps I'd better ask
> you an important question before starting that long process.
> 
> What is the minimum amount of rebuilding that will allow for proper
> testing of your new patch?  Should I really rebuild everything? -
> or just all of xenocara? - or only the chips driver all by itself?

Rebuilding just the chips driver over a recent snapshot is enough:

cd /usr/xenocara/driver/xf86-video-chips
make -f Makefile.bsd-wrapper obj
make -f Makefile.bsd build

-- 
Matthieu Herrb