Hi,
David Baron wrote:
On Monday 20 September 2004 06:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Thank you for all this information! I reread the method I followed to install the propriatary driver fglrx (http://g-tec.co.at/ati_alt.html) and I found just before the "Notes about 2.6.x kernels" section that "DRM" was not supported by the ATI drivers. In my case and my actual kernel, "DRM" is compiled. So I am a little bit lost. I remember having read on the web (was not abble to find the web page again...) that one way for making work the 3D acceleration was using the ATI propriatary drivers *or* DRM/DRI *or* the gatos project. Am I right? So if I understand well, you suggest to install DRM/DRI and not the propriatary drivers.
(WW) fglrx(0): Kernel Module version does *not* match driver.
The "DRM" must be compiled against the kernel. There will be a means of telling the make which kernel and which module(s) to make.
First, untar the kernel source.
Create a "linux" symlink from the /usr/src to the kernel source head directory.
Then, copy the system config from boot to the linux src folder as .config.
make oldconfig.
Then, start the kernel compile. Make is enough. You do not have to go through the whole mess. Once it starts doing CC compilations, you can stop it. What this does is makes sure all the .h files are where they are needed.
Now compile the DRM--you may need to give it the path the the linux src folder.
Finally, copy the resulting .ko file to the appropriate /lib/modules/ ..... folder. Reboot.
A good WIKI can be found here: http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/Building#head-08d485086c70c4b931535491f1ccad21181d731f
I used the DRM from this CVS for my ATI rage pro mach64 card but the instructions should be similar for a different source such as flgr. The "make World" from this CVS would not compile successfully but apparently was not needed--stuff from Sid was enough.
Ithink I will try first to deal with the propriatary drivers and recompile my kernel without the DRM activated. It may take some time since I am not very used to do that yet!
Thanks, Nico
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