help me compile my grahics card driver

**amrosama** · 02-01-2009, 05:01 PM

hi its me again
i going crazy here, uuntu is running slow and ive found out that its because my graphics card isnt installed (least of my problems)
i went through hells and fires just to find that my exact model doesnt have a fully working driver, however i found instructions that require modifying the source of a package in this page.
what i did is downloading the source of the driver and modifying a header file, now i need to make it a .dep package using the

Code:

dpkg-buildpackage

command inside the source code directory, BUT whe i do that command i get:

Code:

dpkg-buildpackage: set CFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: set CPPFLAGS to default value: 
dpkg-buildpackage: set LDFLAGS to default value: -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions
dpkg-buildpackage: set FFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: set CXXFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
tail: cannot open `debian/changelog' for reading: No such file or directory
dpkg-buildpackage: failure: tail of debian/changelog gave error exit status 1

im boiling herem please help me make the package and go to sleep

**amrosama** · 02-01-2009, 05:33 PM

okay, ive managed to solve the error above by using "dpkg-source -x *.dsc" command, now i get whole new type of error when i try to make the .dep file :S
heres the error:

Code:

make[3]: *** [atibus.lo] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/Desktop/xx/xserver-xorg-driver-ati-6.5.7.3/obj-i486-linux-gnu/src'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/Desktop/xx/xserver-xorg-driver-ati-6.5.7.3/obj-i486-linux-gnu'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/Desktop/xx/xserver-xorg-driver-ati-6.5.7.3/obj-i486-linux-gnu'
make: *** [build-stamp] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: failure: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2

p.s. sorry for double posting

Jordan · 02-02-2009, 06:06 AM

What video card do you have?

**amrosama** · 02-02-2009, 03:52 PM

i have ati 9200 pro(not professional at all!), i tried the official package from ati but it didnt work, its not me alone its all the people with the same card, thats why theres tutorials about just how to install the drier for these cards