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Old 24th August 2010
giddyupman giddyupman is offline
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Default ATI Radeon HD 4250 - kernel patch

I was surprised to find this:

http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/freebsd-bugs/2010/7/28/6886133

as I recently bought a motherboard with this onboard chipset and just installed 8.1-RELEASE this weekend to find no fullscreen in mplayer (graphics cards are always my problem it seems).

I've built kernels before, no problem. How exactly do I go about patching the kernel with the above referenced patch?

Will I have to CVSup to -CURRENT? Or may I simply apply only this patch?

Will "world" need to be rebuilt?

Following this, will ports need to be rebuilt? (only 486 installed, no big deal )

Thank you in advance.

giddyupman

(Apologies for the un-clickable links - I don't have enough posts to include links)



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Some supporting information suggesting the card is X friendly:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128445

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-radeonhd/plain/README

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units#IGP_.2 8HD_3xxx.2C_HD_4xxx.29
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Old 24th August 2010
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Originally Posted by giddyupman View Post
I was surprised to find this:

http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/fr...0/7/28/6886133

as I recently bought a motherboard with this onboard chipset and just installed 8.1-RELEASE this weekend to find no fullscreen in mplayer (graphics cards are always my problem it seems).

I've built kernels before, no problem. How exactly do I go about patching the kernel with the above referenced patch?
Download the patch to somewhere (for example /tmp/drm-patch.txt)

Run (as root):

# cd /usr/src/
# patch -p0 < /tmp/drm-patch.txt

This assumes, of course, that you have the kernel source for 8.1-RELEASE installed in /usr/src/sys/.

Now rebuild the kernel.

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Will I have to CVSup to -CURRENT?
No. In fact, the PCI ID is already available in -CURRENT, though I don't know about 8.1-RELEASE.

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Or may I simply apply only this patch?
Yes.

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Will "world" need to be rebuilt?

Following this, will ports need to be rebuilt? (only 486 installed, no big deal )
No, and no. If you are using the same kernel config for this new build as for the previous build, and didn't change kernel versions, you can probably just unload and reload the radeon kernel module and then restart X. Worst case scenario, you reboot.

Adam
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Old 25th August 2010
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Old 17th February 2011
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Default Patching question

Ok, I'm trying to perform the same thing using the fix here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=150594

But when I do, the patch manager goes:
Hmm... Looks like a unified diff to me...
The text leading up to this was:
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|--- src/mesa/drivers/dri/radeon/radeon_chipset.h.orig 2009-11-18 02:54:28.000000000 +0100
|+++ src/mesa/drivers/dri/radeon/radeon_chipset.h 2010-09-14 15:38:09.000000000 +0200
-------------------------------------------
File to patch:

Isn't a unified diff supposed to direct the patch manager on where to apply the patch?
I'm running a little confused here. Any help would be appreciated.
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Old 17th February 2011
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i've been trying to fix the same problem with a slightly different patch (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=150594)

But the patch manager says it looks like a unified diff and then asks me to input a file to patch (the filename). I'm confused, I thought a unified diff would tell it where to go.
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Old 18th February 2011
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The patch utility typically prompts for a path if you're not in the directly relative to the file that needs to be patched.

I'm not sure what you mean by a "patch manager", something FreeBSD wrapped around an already simple task no doubt.

Are you sure you have the source code for mesa on your system? that is a prerequisite for patching.. you also need to build the source after doing that as well.

Have you considered upgrading FreeBSD? the inclusion of that change is likely in a later release.
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Old 3rd October 2011
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Hmm... Looks like a unified diff to me...
The text leading up to this was:
-------------------------------------------
|--- src/mesa/drivers/dri/radeon/radeon_chipset.h.orig 2009-11-18 02:54:28.000000000 +0100
|+++ src/mesa/drivers/dri/radeon/radeon_chipset.h 2010-09-14 15:38:09.000000000 +0200
-------------------------------------------
File to patch:

Isn't a unified diff supposed to direct the patch manager on where to apply the patch?
I'm running a little confused here. Any help would be appreciated.
I generate three patch files here
1) patch-radeon_chipset.h
2) patch-radeon_screen.c
3) Makefile.txt (I cannot upload Makefile without .txt suffix here)

I recommand you backup the /usr/ports/graphics/dri/Makefile file.
You need to place 1st and 2nd patch files to /usr/ports/graphics/dri/files
You need to place the 3rd patch file to /usr/ports/graphics/dri and then rename it to Makefile (omit the .txt suffix)

Everything ready, you can
Code:
cd /usr/ports/graphics/dri
su root
make clean
make install
enjoy
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File Type: c patch-radeon_screen.c (557 Bytes, 115 views)
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