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["David Kowis" <dkowis AT shlrm.org>]

Quoting "Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>:

> On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:34:13 +0100 (CET)
> Andra? 'ruskie' Levstik <ruskie AT codemages.net> wrote:
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> > :2009-01-24T13:18:Thomas Orgis:
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> > > Am Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:41:51 -0800
> > > schrieb Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>:
> > >
> > >>> I am unable to get DRM on my Intel (i915) card anymore. The
> > >>> latest DRM checkouts no longer build i915.ko, only drm.ko. I
> > >>> thought this might
> > >
> > > As I understand it, the kernel now includes drm modules again.
> > > At least my i915.ko comes straight from make menuconfig && make
> > > modules_install
> > >
> > > I had the same situation like you now when the drm modules suddenly
> > > disappeared from the kernel source some time ago. Now they're back.
> > > Hm, so one should omit i915 from the drm spell as option? Not
> > > sure... it's a moving target. I'm off to using my kernel sources
> > > for that purpose anyway.
> > >
> >
> > The drm tree always has latest and greatest versions of this... Kernel
> > only syncs this every so often. And from what I can tell that never
> > disappeared. Just the menu was restructured etc...
>
> That's what I've read as well, yet the drm spell only builds drm.ko and
> doesn't have options for i965 anymore (according to the Makefile). The
> closest I could find is i810 (i830 and i915 are also both gone from the
> Makefile). I'll try the in-kernel ones so I can at least have DRM again.
>
> Here are all the modules the latest drm will build:
> # Start with all modules turned off.
> CONFIG_DRM_GAMMA := n
> CONFIG_DRM_TDFX := n
> CONFIG_DRM_MGA := n
> CONFIG_DRM_I810 := n
> CONFIG_DRM_R128 := n
> CONFIG_DRM_RADEON := n
> CONFIG_DRM_SIS := n
> CONFIG_DRM_FFB := n
> CONFIG_DRM_SAVAGE := n
> CONFIG_DRM_VIA := n
> CONFIG_DRM_MACH64 := n
> CONFIG_DRM_NV := n
> CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU := n
> CONFIG_DRM_XGI := n
>
> I tried the i810, but that didn't support my i965 (I thought maybe
> they'd merged).

I'm in the same boat with my new Thinkpad. It's got an intel adaptor  
in it and no GEM goodness.

The drm spell source has the source files for the i195 card, however I  
don't know how to build them. I haven't really looked into it.

dkowis@nanotop:~$ gaze version mesalib xf86-video-intel libdrm dri2proto linux
Grimoire  Section        Spell             Grimoire Version  Installed Version
--------  -------        -----             ----------------  -----------------
test      graphics-libs  mesalib           7.3               7.3
test      xorg-driver    xf86-video-intel  2.6.1             2.6.1
test      libs           libdrm            2.4.3             2.4.3
test      xorg-proto     dri2proto         1.99.3            1.99.3
test      kernels        linux             2.6.28.1          2.6.28.1

No GEM goodness. :(

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