Bug 551042 – x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis - version bump

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Drake Donahue 2015-06-03 07:04:10 UTC]

Created attachment 404498 [details]
corrects segfault and compile errors

xf86-video-sis-0.10.7 needs update, last gentoo maintenance 07/2012, last xf86 patches 11/2015 (to correct segfaults and compile failures). Patch attached. xorg-drivers-1.16.0 and xorg-drivers-1.16.0 both are blocked by xf86-video-sis-0.10.7. Recommend patch ebuild and version bump to xf86-video-sis-0.10.7-r1. Compile is successful but whether the driver works is unknown as there is no sis  vga card here.

Patch created and compile tested as follows:
nano /usr/portage/x11-base/xorg-drivers/xorg-drivers-1.16.ebuild
edit last line !<=x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7 to read !<x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7
nano /usr/portage/x11-base/xorg-drivers/xorg-drivers-1.17.ebuild
edit next to last line !<=x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7 to read !<x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7
These changes should remove the block as long as either of them is effective.
boot to the command line
login as root
run eselect kernel list
if needed, run eselect kernel set <desired kernel version>
Proceed to create and install patches:
ebuild /usr/portage/x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7.ebuild clean
ebuild /usr/portage/x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7.ebuild fetch
ebuild /usr/portage/x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7.ebuild unpack
mkdir /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7/work/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7-2
cp -aR /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7/work/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7* /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7/work/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7-2
wget -o /root/Downloads/xf86-video-sis-stable-master.zip https://github.com/gununu/xf86-video-sis-stable/archive/master.zip
unzip /root/Downloads/xf86-video-sis-stable-master.zip
cp -aR /root/Downloads/xf86-video-sis-stable-master/src/* /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7/work/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7-2/src
cd /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7/work
diff -Naru xf86-video-sis-0.10.7 xf86-video-sis-0.10.7-2 > kernel-4.1.0-rc3.patch
mkdir --parents /etc/portage/patches/x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7
cp -a triennial_update.patch /etc/portage/patches/x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7
patch -Np1 -d xf86-video-sis-0.10.7 < triennial_update.patch
ebuild /usr/portage/x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7.ebuild install
cd
ebuild /usr/portage/x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7.ebuild qmerge
reboot
startxfce4
emerge xf86-video-sis
reboot
startxfce4

[Comment 1 Mike Gilbert 2015-06-04 01:03:29 UTC]

Comment on attachment 404498 [details]
corrects segfault and compile errors

You can't flag it as a patch if it is compressed.

[Comment 2 Mike Gilbert 2015-06-04 01:04:42 UTC]

Also where did this patch come from? Did you write it?

[Comment 3 Drake Donahue 2015-06-04 01:54:35 UTC]

https://github.com/gununu/xf86-video-sis-stable/archive/master.zip was the repository I exploited. I have some knowledge of github; none of the xf86 git. It looked as though the contents were similar or the same.
The patch itself was generated by me as delineated in the comment above. Uncompressed it exceeded the 1000 kb limit so I compressed. My apologies for breaking the rules.

[Comment 4 Mike Gilbert 2015-06-04 02:24:23 UTC]

Ah, ok. So you want to have some changes backported. That makes more sense than the mega-patch you attached.

Upstream repo: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-sis/

[Comment 5 Matt Turner 2015-06-04 03:47:12 UTC]

Instead of pulling patches out of github, I should just do a new release of the -sis driver. (...if someone actually needs it)

[Comment 6 Drake Donahue 2015-06-04 13:40:31 UTC]

A new release of the -sis driver sounds perfect.
Someone who needs it equals https://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=342420 on the forum.

[Comment 7 Matt Turner 2015-08-29 23:48:06 UTC]

Sorry for the delay. I've released v0.10.8 and pushed it into Gentoo straight to stable.