On Sat, 2002-06-08 at 02:59, Keith Gross wrote: > On Tuesday 04 June 2002 11:31 pm, Mike A. Harris wrote: > > On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Keith Gross wrote: > > >Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0500 > > > > From: Keith Gross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >Content-Type: text/plain; > > > charset="iso-8859-1" > > >List-Id: General X Discussion <xpert.XFree86.Org> > > >Subject: Re: Re: Radeon VE QY (PCI) > > > > > >I do most of my work on the weekends so I'll try setting this up this > > > wekend. What would be the easiest way to get the changes you made to > > > enable the support so I could start from there. > > > > The patch is in the RHL 7.3 XFree86 src.rpm package, as well as > > buried somewhere under my testing dir in my sig. > > I was just wondering if the following will work. I retreived the patch > (XFree86-4.2.0-ati-radeon-pci-drm-enable.patch) from your ftp server and > applied it to my XFree 4.2.0 build tree and recompiled. I was thinking than > that I'd replace the following files with the new versions in the build tree > as shown below : > > Replaced /lib/modules/2.4.19-gentoo-r5/kernel/drivers/char/drm/radeon.o > with /xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/drm/kernel/radeon.o > > Replaced /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/radeon_dri.so > with /xc/exports/lib/modules/dri/radeon_dri.so > > Replaced /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.o > with /xc/exports/lib/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.o > > After looking at the patches and reading some background on DRI and XFree > design this seemed viable.
Yes. > I as also wondering how bad the reports where on the patch? Did it > periodically fail or it just plain wouldn't start? I think 3D clients would lock up after a while. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert