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| author | Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk@iki.fi> | 2009-07-29 12:23:46 +0300 |
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| committer | Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk@iki.fi> | 2009-07-29 12:23:46 +0300 |
| commit | c088a8dc4e5a37d8e07766c0c26ebc11037407c0 (patch) | |
| tree | f392edcdbd5fe1fb410d08ab0f84d8c12c233b81 | |
| parent | a3788ff318f57f64d7317eeaee4d64a466f3745a (diff) | |
Added FAQ about building drivers from GIT for testing purposes.
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 14 |
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@@ -44,6 +44,20 @@ A: Make sure that TFT Panel support is disabled in the BIOS settings, Q: How do I produce useful information whenever submiting a bug report? A: See http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/ServerDebugging + and follow the instructions. + +Q: How do I test development snapshots from the upstream GIT repository? + +A: Run the following commands from a command line interpreter shell... + 1. git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-geode + 2. Debian/Ubuntu: apt-get install autoconf automake libtool + apt-get install build-dep xserver-xorg-video-geode + Fedora/Red Hat: yum install autoconf automake libtool + yum-builddep xorg-x11-drv-geode + 3. cd xf86-video-geode + 4. ./autogen.sh + 5. make distcheck + ...then install the driver manually. Q: What is the preferred method for submitting patches to this driver? |