Radeon driver hang
Mike A. Harris
mharris at mharris.ca
Wed Dec 21 17:35:21 UTC 2005
Erwin Rol wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I added Benjamin's patch to the ati driver SRPM to test if it works, and
> for me it seems to work, my machine doesn't hard hang anymore.
>
> If you want to try it out the SRPM can be found here;
> http://www.erwinrol.com/downloads/software/xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.5.7-2.src.rpm
As a good general guideline, if you make a custom version of a package
that Red Hat ships, and bump the release number, it is a very good idea
to also namespace it specially to not conflict with future official
Red Hat package version/releases. It also helps to make it more clear
that it is not an official Red Hat build when looking at the output
of rpm -q et al.
What I do for personal custom builds of packages, is namespace them with
".mharris.n" ie: xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.5.7-1.mharris.1.src.rpm
Let's me know this was based on the official Red Hat -1 package, and it
is my first custom build. If I need to rebuild, it would become .2 on
the end, etc.
Just thought I'd suggest that, as it's a generally good idea. ;)
I wouldn't worry about it for this one now tho, as a new Radeon driver
version is about to hit rawhide.
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Mike A. Harris, Open Source Advocate * http://mharris.ca
Proud to be Canadian.
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