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Thank you; it worked!

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 4:35 AM, Jacob Zimmermann <jacob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  Hi Brandon
>
> The patch is to be applied to the fglrx driver source, not the kernel
> source, e.g:
>
> dkms status
> (it will list your fglrx version among other things)
>
> sudo dkms remove -m fglrx -v your_fglrx_version -k your_kernel_version
> (to clean up your failed module build)
>
> cd /usr/src/fglrx-***
> sudo patch -p1 < patchfile.patch
>
> sudo dkms install -m fglrx -v your_fglrx_version -k your_kernel_version
>
> reboot and enjoy
>
>
> On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 20:25 -0400, ./ wrote:
>
> (I don't know how to correctly reply to the right message in the mailing list, or even send this directly to a "hidden" email address, for this I am sorry)
>
> Hi Jacob (and everyone),
>
> I want to try the new Linux kernel on my Envy 15 as I am going to be
> playing games in Wine. However, I am somewhat new to linux, and I don't
> know how to apply your patch. I tried to compile 2.6.34 myself and I
> tried `patch -p1 --dry-run <filewithyourpatch>` but I got an error so I
> did not actually apply it. (I assume this patch must be applied after
> compilation). When I did compile the kernel without errors it wouldn't
> boot. I just realized that an updated kernel can just be downloaded from
> a PPA (I am running Ubuntu 10.04).
> Anyway I just wanted to know how to apply the patch you sent that allows
> the proprietary ATI driver to work on the newer kernels.
>
> Thanks,
> Brandon
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