Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words > Sorry about the silence, been busy with other things. > > For the most part, it did. I only don't have DRI yet, still > working on that. Partly this is because I have a Via Unichrome > vga card embedded in the somewhat new Via CN400 chipset, for > which open source support is still beta. It should work, I'm > just trying to figure out why I am missing the unichrome_dri.ko > :-) Small mistake on my part, I'm sure. Glxgears works though, > with a wonderfull 100 frames a second. (Should be 600 so I hear) > I planned to reply later to the list with the steps I took, but > basically you can rest assured that your "steps to follow" are > valid, because Xorg 6.9 itself seems to be working fine. Very > big thanks for that. > > What I did: (from the top of my head) > > enable PAX_NOELFRELOC (thanks!) in the kernel search for > TEXTREL's in my system with the script, (found nothing, phew) > replace the gcc specs file untar Xorg 6.9 apply the Mesa patch > continue with the rest of 6.8.2 instructions (no patches) added > two extra lines to the host.def used the agpart.h sed command > make and make install reset the gcc specs file > > Xorg -configure startx glxgears > > implementing open source unichrome drivers.... > > So big thanks for your help, it sure made a difference. Best > regards, Warren >
OK... DRI lesson 2 The common-* archive is not to be installed as it contains textrels, and Mesa gives you the files IIRC I used radeon-* for the driver archive, and needed to make these mods Insert type -p instead of which, as I didn't have which After grokking the install script, copy <Kernel>/.config --> /boot/vmlinuz.config <Kernel>/include/linux/version.h --> /boot/vmlinuz.version.h <Kernel>/include/linux/autoconf.h --> /boot/vmlinuz.autoconf.h Real intuitive, eh? :-) If you decide to remake Mesa, use the one in the X tree (Don't delete that). You can cd into it and 'make linux-dri' after a make clean. I think I used make linux-dri-x86, but some bug solution since said that the extra optimisations provided by the -x86 variant were unhelpful to hardened systems http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5585 I had to remake Mesa, btw. Also, use the altered gcc specs file to make any of this. -- With best Regards, Declan Moriarty. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/hlfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
