Re: [Dri-devel] [Fwd: FAQ addition: new DRM module location in test kernels]

[Forge O. <Fo...@at...>]

I actually had just this same problem a few days ago. I wrote to the DRI-devel list, but apparently I wasn't clear in my wording. moving the DRM module to /lib/modules/2.4.0-test10/misc/ got me running in the short term, but the machine began behaving oddly, locking up at odd points, mostly related to 3d. I ended up wiping out my copy of linux and reinstalling, then pulling a fresh copy of CVS dri before I realized the problem. I'll be going to back to 10-pre5 as soon as I get DRI functional again. I'd heartily recommend adding a mention of this to the compile guide.

Semi-OT - I'm new to cvs, how do I pull a specific branch instead of the trunk? I'd like to run ATI-4-1-1 instead of the trunk, but I'm somewhat clueless.

--- =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Nettingsmeier <net...@fo...>
> wrote:
>hello, dri-devel folk !
>
>i sent this letter to daryll strauss, and he told me to forward it
>to you.
>please keep me cc:ed on replies. 
>
>regards,
>
>jörn
>
>
>
>Daryll Strauss wrote:
>> 
>> Could you resend this to the dri...@li... list?
>> That's probably the right place to get it exposure.
>> 
>>                                                         - |Daryll
>> 
>> On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 05:37:13PM +0200, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:
>> > hello daryll !
>> >
>> > sorry if you're the wrong person to bother with this, but i had
>> > difficulty finding another email contact.
>> >
>> > i have had great difficulty to get quake3 to run with xf 4.0.1 and
>> > the DRM module from kernel 2.4.0-test10pre5.
>> > i found that the module location has changed: from
>> > /lib/modules/version/misc to /lib/modules/kernel/driver/char/drm/ .
>> > thus the xserver wouldn't find it on startup and fall back to
>> > software rendering.
>> >
>> > since i'm using kmod, i would have expected the Xserver to send a
>> > request to the kernel which would make kmod load the drm module.
>> > obviously, this is not the case. imho, it's somewhat
>> > counter-intuitive that X uses modprobe to accomplish this.
>> >
>> > i worked around the problem by creating symbolic links, but this is
>> > definitely not what linus had in mind when he decided to clean up
>> > the lib/modules tree :)
>> >
>> > could you forward the workaround to the folks who maintain the DRI
>> > user guides ?
>> > it's not uncommon for 3d users to live on the cutting edge wrt
>> > kernels, so this hint might save many people a lot of hassle.
>> >
>> > many thanks to you and all DRI contributors for bringing quake back
>> > to linux :)
>> >
>> > all the best,
>> >
>> > jörn
>
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