On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 12:35 -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote: > 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. Well it wasn't really thought as a replacement of the fedora version, just a quick hack to see it Benjamin's patch worked for me or not. And it did, so I thought to share that in case others had the same problem. I do hope the patch makes it in the next rawhide rpm so i can throw away my hacked rpm :-) - Erwin -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
