[Dri-devel] Re: Radeon problem

[Mike A. H. <mh...@re...>]

On 29 Mar 2001, Trond Eivind Glomsr=F8d wrote:

>> Are you using the radeon module from the kernel?  If you are this
>> could possibly be a source of the problems.  If you are using DRI CVS
>> use the kernel modules from the CVS tree.  The kernel modules that
>> come with the kernel will only work properly with a release version of
>> XFree86.  Its very likely that we have changed things in the DRI CVS
>> tree that require kernel module changes.
>
>Yes, it does. Speaking of that - how about sending Alan Cox
>the new Radeon DRM module?
>
>It only works (and has worked) with XFree/DRI CVS anyway,
>so there is no backwards compatibility problems - and having a working
>drm module after a kernel build would be nice.

I'd like to second this request also.  Although Radeon DRI
doesn't work in 4.0.3, it would be a nice thing for Radeon users
if they could drop in the current DRI code and have a kernel that
is already set up.  It won't be long until packages are ready
that support Radeon DRI, so...



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