Stephen Gran saw fit to inform me that: >> Thanks a lot for the link. I am using Kernel 2.4.9 however I have got XFree >> 4.0.2. At present I cannot upgrade to 4.1.x. Hence I downloaded the tarball >> file from the above link. How should I compile this ? No INSTALL file with >> this. Can u help me out ? > >bunzip2 drm-4.0.x.tar.bz2|tar -xvvf >rm -vf /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/drm/* >cp drm-4.0.x/* /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/drm/ >cd /usr/src/linux/ >make config (or menuconfig or xconfig, whatever) >Recompile your kernel, install and reboot.
I recompiled the kernel after doing the above thing. However I am still getting this in /var/log/XFree86.0.log: (II) I810(0): direct rendering: Disabled Any ideas why this might be happening ? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log$ dpkg -l | grep XFree ii xfree86-common 4.0.2-1 X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure ii xserver-xfree8 4.0.2-1 the XFree86 X server [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log$ uname -a Linux debian 2.4.9 #1 Sun Aug 26 14:06:38 GMT 2001 i686 unknown [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log$ dmesg | grep drm [drm] AGP 0.99 on Intel i810 @ 0xd0000000 64MB [drm] Initialized i810 1.1.0 20000928 on minor 63 Thanks in advance. Warm Regards -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/ Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIA Powered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.9(ext3), Mutt 1.3.20i, IceWM "Silence is the true friend that never betrays." - Confucious ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
