How to kernel patch for ati-drivers

haneulso · Apprentice Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 173

At this time gentoo official kernel-2.6.29 does not match ati-drivers-8.552-r2
So I'm trying to patch kernel for ati-drivers.
Patch file is in follow.
https://bugs.gentoo.org/266819

But, I cannot patch it to kernel.
How can I patch it?

Location of patch file and option of patch.

Tanks.

gringo · Advocate Joined: 27 Apr 2003 Posts: 3793

normally you only have to do the following as root :

- download the patch and put it into the directory where your kernel sources are ( /usr/src/linux i suppose)
- cd into that directory and execute patch -p1 --dry-run < patch
- if the above does apply cleanly, then you can remove the --dry-run switch and execute it again
- sources are patched, recompile the kernel

hope this helps.

cheers
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cyrillic · Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:23 pm Post subject:

The bugreport you linked to looks like they are applying the patch to ati-drivers, not the kernel.

It seems like ati-drivers (especially an old version like 8.552-r2) is too old to work with recent kernel sources.