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["Chris Dennis" <Chris.Dennis AT invidi.com>]

I am able to use 3.2.8 as well as 3.2.5. You do need the XFree86 src tree to
build the gears program. You need QT to build the fire control. Everything
else in the rpm I just copied to /usr/X11R6 and /lib/modules. Then I ran the
two scripts in /lib/modules/fglrx and it worked fine.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robin Cook [mailto:rcook AT wyrms.net]
> Sent: November 1, 2003 2:45 PM
> To: Chris Dennis
> Cc: Source Mage - Discuss
> Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] ATI video drivers
> 
> I tried getting them to work so I could get better graphics with
> Neverwinter Nights but I was unable to get it to build properly.
> Not sure where the problem was though as they did have it enable to
> build with the 2.6.0-test kernels.
> 
> You don't need to have the XFree86 src tree to build it though.
> 
> GCC 3.3.2
> glibc 2.3.2
> kernel 2.6.0-test9
> XFree86 4.3.99.14
> 
> Tried building the kernel modules and got this
> ----------------------------------------------
> probing for VMA API version...
> cc_ret_vma_240 = 1
> cc_ret_vma_253 = 1
> check results are inconsistent!!!
> none of the probed versions did succeed.
> aborting module build.
> ----------------------------------------------
> 
> Modified the following two files
> ----------------------------------------------
> /usr/src/linux-2.6.0-test9/include/asm-i386/mpspec.h  line 6
> changed to #include <asm/mach-default/mach_mpspec.h> from #include
> <mach_mpspec.h>
> 
> /usr/src/linux-2.6.0-test9/include/asm-i386/smp.h  line 73
> changed to #include <asm/mach-default/mach_apicdef.h> from #include
> <mach_apicdef.h>
> ----------------------------------------------
> 
> Tried building the kernel modules again and got this
> ----------------------------------------------
> doing Makefile based build for kernel 2.6.x and higher
> make -C /lib/modules/2.6.0-test9/build
> SUBDIRS=/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x modules
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.0-test9'
> *** Warning: Overriding SUBDIRS on the command line can cause
> ***          inconsistencies
> make[2]: `arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s' is up to date.
>   Building modules, stage 2.
>   MODPOST
> *** Warning: "VMALLOC_VMADDR"
> [/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/fglrx.ko] undefined!
> ----------------------------------------------
> 
> Tried loading the module and of course it failed.
> ----------------------------------------------
> Oct 26 16:09:52 [kernel] [drm] Initialized radeon 1.9.0 20020828 on
> minor 0
> Oct 26 16:11:46 [kernel] fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 -
> ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel.
> Oct 26 16:11:46 [kernel] fglrx: Unknown symbol VMALLOC_VMADDR
> Oct 26 16:12:14 [kernel] [drm] Module unloaded
> Oct 26 16:13:47 [kernel] fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 -
> ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel.
>                 - Last output repeated twice -
> Oct 26 16:14:40 [kernel] fglrx: Unknown symbol VMALLOC_VMADDR
> Oct 26 16:15:54 [kernel] [drm] Initialized radeon 1.9.0 20020828 on
> minor 0
> Oct 26 16:23:30 [pam_group] not opened
> ----------------------------------------------
> 
> On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 13:26, Chris Dennis wrote:
> > Is anyone working on ATI drivers? I've had a look at genotoo's ebuild
> script
> > and ATI's rpm. In order to compile some of the sources, it is necessary
> to
> > extract a src file into the Xfree86 tree. I'm not sure how to go about
> that.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
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