Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
Chris Staub wrote:
Compiling Xorg with GCC4 apparently results in a messed-up video
driver for certain hardware (like mine, for example). It seems
"libvgahw.a" has a problem that causes all the other consoles on my
system to go blank when X starts. I see that there is a fix for it - I
keep seeing referencs to "030_libvgahw_gcc4_volatile_fix.diff" that
should fix the problem but all I can find on Google is a bunch of
changelog entries and mailinglist messages and a couple of references
to downloading a fixed, precompiled libvgahw.a file - I can't find the
actual source code patch file anywhere.
Go to an empty directory, then:
wget
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xorg-x11/xorg-x11_6.8.2.dfsg.1-4.diff.gz
zcat xorg-x11_6.8.2.dfsg.1-4.diff.gz | patch -Np0
The commands above only create new files, so the patch succeeds even in
an empty directory. Then you can see the patch:
xorg-x11-6.8.2.dfsg.1/debian/patches/030_libvgahw_gcc4_volatile_fix.diff
Thanks, that worked.
However, this is possibly incomplete, so fixing the problem from gcc
side may be better. See these references:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2005-July/008662.html
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-07/msg00699.html
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