Liang, I got my x windows back. I had to delete the qxl driver and copy over a backup of the xorg.conf file I made, but I have restored my system to a working state.
However, it seems manually editing the source code for that driver is a bad idea. :) If I were going to apply the patch as it is intended, would that be done through git? I don't see a .patch file in that archive so I don't think I can use the patch command to do it. Or would I use diff to create a .patch file? Brian > > 2010/6/10 Brian Milliron <bri...@io.com> >> Thanks Robert, that is good info on spice, but not particularly relevant >> to my problems with qxl. They don't discuss qxl drivers at all on that >> wiki and I already have spice working with vga drivers, just not qxl. >> Maybe you can help me with the 2 puzzles Liang left behind? >> >> 1) This git link: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video- >> qxl/commit/?id=563f31ad081038ece8b5a5b525dd516fcd6ad0fd >> >> Unfortunately I'm too green to know what to do with this. The gzip >> archive contains some source files but no make or configure files. Do I >> overwrite the previous source files with the new git source files and >> use the old configure and make files? > > if you don't know how to apply a patch, you may just delete following line > in src/qxl_driver.c line 1234, then recompile it > > assert (((struct qxl_mode *)p->Private)->x_res == p->HDisplay); > assert (((struct qxl_mode *)p->Private)->y_res == p->VDisplay); > > > >> 2) His statement that "QXL Driver is included in debian unstable, you >> may build it for you ubuntu." >> >> Does he mean these drivers are unstable? >> http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/driver/xf86-video- > qxl-0.0.12.tar.gz >> Because those are the ones I currently have installed. >> I tried using the ones he linked to here: >> http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xserver-xorg-video- >> qxl/xserver-xorg-video-qxl_0.0.12-1.dsc >> But they require xserver-xorg-dev version 1.7.6.901 which I don't know >> where to get. > you have not install xserver-xorg-dev, so you may not compile the dpkg > package. if the first methord works, please forgot this one. > > Thanks, > -- > Liang Guo > http://bluestone.cublog.cn _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com