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Experimental Xorg 7.3 packages for Feisty

Warning: This is for testing only! Expect to screw up your X if you try this out. This page is meant to help testing of new upstream versions, to see if they fix Ubuntu bugs. If they do, a fix might be backported to the official packages, or they will be available in the next Ubuntu release.

Ross Burton has a repository for new Xorg packages built for feisty: http://www.burtonini.com/debian/feisty/ You can either install the Xorg 1.3 server packages one by one:

  • xserver-xorg-core_1.3.0.0.dfsg-1feisty1_i386.deb
  • xserver-xorg-core-dbg_1.3.0.0.dfsg-1feisty1_i386.deb

or, to avoid manual dependency and version tracking, add this to /etc/apt/sources.list 

deb http://www.burtonini.com/debian/ feisty/
deb-src http://www.burtonini.com/debian/ feisty/

and run sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

ati driver

For ATI cards, get a test build of 6.6.191, patched for bug #22985, from http://tormod.webhop.org/linux/ati/

  • xserver-xorg-video-ati_6.6.191-1ubuntu1_i386.deb

intel driver

Robert's repository includes the newest intel drivers such as xserver-xorg-video-intel 2.0

savage driver

For S3 Savage cards, http://tormod.webhop.org/linux/savage/

  • xserver-xorg-video-savage_2.1.2-5_i386.deb

Uninstalling, reverting

Please keep track of which packages you install. The easiest way to revert to standard Feisty, is to uninstall the packages sudo apt-get remove xserver-xorg-core etc, etc, and clean up /etc/apt/sources.list if you changed it, and reinstall from normal repositories: sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-core

Building drivers

The easiest is to grab the source from Debian experimental (or unstable) and build them on Feisty. Example for an ati driver:

Find the experimental packages from http://packages.debian.org/xserver-xorg-video-ati and download the .orig.tar.gz, .diff.gz and .dsc files. 

sudo apt-get build-dep xserver-xorg-video-ati
dpkg-source -x xserver-xorg-video-ati_6.6.191-1.dsc
cd xserver-xorg-video-ati-6.6.191
debuild -b -us -uc
cd ..
sudo dpkg -i xserver-xorg-video-ati_6.6.191-1_i386.deb

In many cases this will build and install nicely without changes. Otherwise you'll have to patch them... The official Ubuntu source and patches (for older versions) can be found through for instance http://packages.ubuntu.com/xserver-xorg-video-ati Download and unpack them as for the Debian packages, and look at the patches in the debian/patches directory.

XorgOnTheEdge (last edited 2013-01-06 19:41:30 by penalvch)