How to apply a Patch?

[SK_pt]

Hi,

 

I duno if someone had the same problem, but the thing is that I bought this laptop, and it seems it have this problem that Mandrake gave a solution.

 

The solution is to apply a patch, and the problem is with ATI Radeon 9000 on Laptops about changing between Tv-Out and PC, it will get black screen not coming back to monitor from OS.

 

So I got the solution but i know nothing what to do with it, I'm newbie in Linux, but advanced in programming, but not in Linux area (where i want to get in now).

 

I presume that I get the patch go to the *.c file of the driver, change the C code, and after that compile it, probably some make /file something... but i duno anything of this...

 

Anyone could put hee the steps for it? The full steps to apply a patch?

 

Anyways for the curious the solution to have my graphic card working correctly is bellow, the all patch solution.

 

Thanks

 

--- radeon_driver.c.orig 2003-09-21 12:39:25.952390342 +0200

+++ radeon_driver.c 2003-09-21 12:27:08.000000000 +0200

@@ -1058,7 +1058,7 @@

info->PanelPwrDly = RADEON_BIOS16(tmp+44);

if (info->PanelPwrDly > 2000 || info->PanelPwrDly < 0)

info->PanelPwrDly = 2000;

- for (i = 0; i < 20; i++) {

+ for (i = 0; i < 21; i++) {

tmp0 = RADEON_BIOS16(tmp+64+i*2);

if (tmp0 == 0) break;

if ((RADEON_BIOS16(tmp0) == info->PanelXRes) &&

[alaa]

you can apply a patch by running the command

patch orignial patch

 

where orinignal is the filename of the file you want to patch and patch is the file name of the patch you want to apply

 

in your case it'll probably be

patch  radeon_driver.c  radeon_driver.c.patch

 

or something similar

cheers,

Alaa

[SK_pt]

That easy? :o

 

Man, I don't get why Mandrake Linux still isn't world dominating.

 

 

cheers and thanks a lot for your help,

SK