[Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#485793: Bug#485793: fglrx-source do not compile on amd64 with 2.6.26 kernel

[Romain Beauxis]

Le Monday 04 August 2008 17:45:39 Deng Xiyue, vous avez écrit :
> > Could compile it yourself too ?
>
> Done.  Unfortunately the vanilla 8.7 driver doesn't build on 2.6.26
> either.  I found a patch for driver 8.7 at
>
> http://phorogit.com/index.php?p=fglrx-packaging.git&dl=plain&h=a94205d6bb86
>dbf154c3e519b6da869c529cafe4
>
> But it doesn't apply cleanly, but the junk parts are just formating
> fixes, so I removed the trouble chunks.  The refreshed patch is
> attached, with which I am able to compile the kernel module out, and
> loading it succeeded without problem.  Please consider an update
> targeting unstable, and as this is an important bug, a freeze exception
> should be possible.

Many thanks for your work. The upstream patch is horrible, but let's hope 
we'll drop it with next release...

It is commited to the svn, you can test the package generated from there, 
though I'm sure it's working.

I'll upload 8-7-2 to unstable in the next few days I think.


Romain
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