Re: [Nolug] trouble patching gv source.

Both cards are ATI. One is a Rage, the other is a Mach64CT.

Also sprach Pietu:
> What video card you are using ?
>
> If it's nVIDIA, you probably shouldn't use xinerama. ( if I remember
> correctly )
> I got my dual head working like charm, just by installing nVIDIA's own
> drivers and then modifying manually two lines from XFree config file. All
> demanding OpenGL apps worked fine too.
>
> At the moment I don't have that setup anymore.
>
> Unfortunately I don't have answer for your direct question. I'm thumbless
> when it comes to compiling or patching stuff.
>
> Petri
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-nolug@patientcarerx.com
> > [mailto:owner-nolug@patientcarerx.com]On Behalf Of Christopher M. Jones
> > Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 12:17 PM
> > To: nolug@patientcarerx.com
> > Subject: [Nolug] trouble patching gv source.
> >
> >
> > Hi guys. I recently set my system up dual head, and wanted to run
> > xinerama.
> > However, a key piece of my productivity is gv, which seems not to
> > understand
> > about xinerama -at all-.
> >
> > There is a patch for this, which I found in Debian's bug tracking system.
> >
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=83693&repeatmerged=yes
> >
> > However, I cannot get this to work. I extracted the text beginning with
> >
> > --- gv-3.5.8/source/main.c
> >
> > , not including the --- at the end of the code, patched with
> >
> > patch source/main.c gvpatch.txt
> >
> > What I get is this:
> >
> > main.o: In function 'main_setResolutions':
> > main.o(.text+ox216d): undefined reference to 'XineramaIsActive'
> > main.o(.text+0x2186): undefined reference to 'XineramaQueryScreens'
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > make[1[ *** [gv] Error 1
> > ...
> >
> > In the message that the patch came in, it is mentioned that 'gv'
> > has to be
> > linked against -lXinerama. So I think I have to do something more
> > than patch
> > the source. But I don't know what. Can anyone help?
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