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  • From: Paul <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • To: Jose Bernardo Silva <jbs AT bandos.homelinux.com>
  • Cc: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Xfree86 4.4
  • Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 09:51:35 -0500

What did you do to disable it? I thought I had tried everything.

On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 10:22, Jose Bernardo Silva wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Apr 2004 09:10:55 -0500, Paul wrote
>
> > I recompiled the kernel with no agpart and no DRI (or is it called
> > DRM in there...), and still X insisted on compiling DRM :/
> >
> > I finaly solved the problem by getting the SIS stuff to compile
> > properly. I needed to
> > ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.6.4/include/video/sisfb.h
> /usr/src/linux-2.6.4/include/linux/sisfb.h
> >
> > I'm not sure what a bug report would say... is anyone able to build X
> > 4.4 w/o DRM at all?
> >
> > --
> > De mortuis nihil nisi bonum.
>
> Well, that reminds me that the SiS drivers (http://www.winischhofer.net)
> have
> different instructions when compiling for kernel 2.6.x and for kernels
> 2.4.x.
> For 2.4.x, it was needed to have the sisfb.h file in
> /usr/src/linux/include/video/, in 2.6.x, it was in
> /usr/src/linux/include/linux/. I'll try your solution tomorrow.
> What I did to get X to compile without DRI/DRM? I edited hosts.def, and
> disabled the option there. It seems the dialog interface isn't working that
> well...
>
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