This weekend I sat down and wrestled with the missing Glint driver for the PGX32 PCI Card. It turned out to be pretty straightforward and I suspect it was dropped because of lack of interest. I probably took way more steps then needed but I’ve never done this before on debian.
Steps I took to build (rebuild) the deb file. Step 1) Git clone the 1.2.9 source and rename it to the format found the original tar.gz from Debian Archive git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-glint mv xf86-video-glint xf86-video-glint-1.2.9 Step 2) Clean up the repo and get it ready for tar ball cd xf86-video-glint-1.2.9 Strip out the git info. rm -r -f .git rm .gitignore ./autogen.sh This gives you the base mgt@xray:~/glint/glint_1.2.9/xf86-video-glint-1.2.9$ ls aclocal.m4 compile config.h.in config.sub COPYING libtool Makefile.am missing src autogen.sh config.guess config.log configure depcomp ltmain.sh Makefile.in README.md stamp-h1 autom4te.cache config.h config.status configure.ac install-sh Makefile man README.pm3 I think I ran make distclean also after this. Then back out make the tarball cd .. tar -czf xserver-xorg-video-glint_1.2.9.orig.tar.gz xf86-video-glint-1.2.9/ Step 3) Download the Original DEB pieces dsc and diff.gz from Wheezy. wget http://archive.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xserver-xorg-video-glint/xserver-xorg-video-glint_1.2.7-1.dsc <http://archive.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xserver-xorg-video-glint/xserver-xorg-video-glint_1.2.7-1.dsc> wget http://archive.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xserver-xorg-video-glint/xserver-xorg-video-glint_1.2.7-1.diff.gz <http://archive.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xserver-xorg-video-glint/xserver-xorg-video-glint_1.2.7-1.diff.gz> Step 4) Edit the 1.2.7 diff file zcat xserver-xorg-video-glint_1.2.7-1.diff.gz > xserver-xorg-video-glint_1.2.9-1.diff EDIT the diff (You need replace the 1.2.7 references with 1.2.9 I used vi find and replace but whatever you enjoy do that. gzip xserver-xorg-video-glint_1.2.9-1.diff Step 5) Get the hash and file size info and edit the DSC with that md5sum xserver-xorg-video-glint_1.2.9.orig.tar.gz 25e4823760027ff3585eb7af72446f5f xserver-xorg-video-glint_1.2.9.orig.tar.gz sha1sum xserver-xorg-video-glint_1.2.9.orig.tar.gz 7eec959557532c2895affe8d695aae2326c38dc6 xserver-xorg-video-glint_1.2.9.orig.tar.gz sha256sum xserver-xorg-video-glint_1.2.9.orig.tar.gz 6f07a7677656bb65a874bd73307ae64139089d7a9068b5a404c1b5021f76a42f xserver-xorg-video-glint_1.2.9.orig.tar.gz sha1sum xserver-xorg-video-glint_1.2.9-1.diff.gz e4874e24cb4a4e4b051ac3b62af5d0fd98aee1a5 xserver-xorg-video-glint_1.2.9-1.diff.gz sha256sum xserver-xorg-video-glint_1.2.9-1.diff.gz 1f32388e0b04505910b21e27de935ff95b0360a0659f471d214d317d764d8ae3 xserver-xorg-video-glint_1.2.9-1.diff.gz md5sum xserver-xorg-video-glint_1.2.9-1.diff.gz bc686df96e566e85b9a2f8a9b5792d95 xserver-xorg-video-glint_1.2.9-1.diff.gz mgt@xray:~/glint/glint_1.2.9$ ls -al xserver-xorg-video-glint_1.2.9-1.diff.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 mgt mgt 6636 Sep 20 11:42 xserver-xorg-video-glint_1.2.9-1.diff.gz Step 6) Follow debian rebuild steps. dpkg-source -x xserver-xorg-video-glint_1.2.9-1.dsc cd xserver-xorg-video-glint-1.2.9/ dpkg-checkbuilddeps dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc Assuming you had all the debs or installed them it should be build clean and hand you deb package which you can install. dpkg -i ./xserver-xorg-video-glint_1.2.9-1_sparc64.deb Edit you Xorg settings to use the glint driver like mgt@xray:~$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/device.conf Section "Device" Identifier "Card0" Driver "glint" VendorName "Permedia 2" BoardName "PGX32" BusID "PCI:2:1:0" EndSection (Obviously your BusID might be different) and you should be able to use the glint driver. I’ve played around with it for a few hour long sessions in the last few days and have not hit anything too strange. I can’t seem to get 1200x1024 @60 working clean but I suspect it’s my Xorg.conf Monitor lines. Hope this helps anyone who needs the glint driver so Debian 10. -Mike
