From: Chris T. <chr...@ya...> - 2001-07-08 21:40:38
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Hey, I'm new to Linux, but ... do you have to recomplie the kernel just to take advantage of new kernel modules? With my current Radeon issue, I was told to simply copy drm kernel modules from X to the correct library ... why recomplie the kernel? - Chris Thielen " Peace, Love, 'n Linux." --- gr...@gr... wrote: > I have a "blue and white" G3 on which I installed > vanilla Yellow Dog > Linux 2.0. This comes with a 2.2.19 kernel and > XFree86 4.0.2. It appears > to have all the hooks for running DRI, including the > kernel DRM module. > It does not work out of the box however, because > they did not include > the "r128" module for the ATI Rage 128 chip in their > kernel. "I can > handle this", I think. I just reconfigure and > recompile the kernel to > include the r128 module. All well and good, except > then I find out > (probably) why they didn't include it. When the X > server attempts to > load the r128 module, the load fails: > > unresolved symbol cmpxchg > > Anybody know what this symbol is, where it is > supposed to be defined, > and what I might do to get DRI working on this > machine? > > Thanks, > --Greg > > _______________________________________________ > Dri-users mailing list > Dri...@li... > http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-users __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ |