[clug] ATI drivers and Ubuntu/linux in general
Andrew Janke
a.janke at gmail.com
Mon Jun 23 10:25:48 GMT 2008
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 23:02, Chris Smart <chris at kororaa.org> wrote:
> But, it shouldn't be too hard to try as apt-get build-dep
> xserver-xorg-video-ati should still bring in all required dev libs. Then
> just try your old package with checkinstall or something?
Well thanks for all the replies, in the end I just went and bit the
bullet.. For those who also might happen to want to do this (or are
using the google) here is what I did:
1. Booted into hardy
2. removed fglrx and ati
# apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-fglrx
3. fiddled in /etc/apt/sources.list and replaced all hardy's with feisty
(in vi) :%s/hardy/feisty/
4. updated
# apt-get update
5. got the package and prereqs
# apt-get install x11proto-gl-dev x11proto-video-dev x11proto-xf86misc-dev \
x11proto-fonts-dev libdrm-dev x11proto-xf86dri-dev quilt
xserver-xorg-dev
# cd /root/
# apt-get source xserver-xorg-video-ati
6. built it
# cd xserver-xorg-video-ati-6.6.3/
# dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -b
(ignore a few warnings about dire things not happening due to
missing symbols and the likes)
7. installed it
# cd ..
# dpkg --install --force-all xserver-xorg-video-ati_6.6.3-2ubuntu6_i386.deb
(there are a few warnings that must be forced)
8. Copied in my old xorg.conf then restarted
Voila!
Mind you now I have to sort out how to "pin" my version of
xserver-xorg-video-ati such that dpkg/apt stops complaining... time
for another odyssey.
Thanks again all.
a
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