Re: [Dri-users] DRI on Yellow Dog?

[Chris T. <chr...@ya...>]

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
> 
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