[PlanetCCRMA] radeon 9700 fc3

[Jamie Bullock]

The proprietary driver is only necessary if you really want the 3D/DRI
performance, which most people do! It is really a complete nightmare.
The following page should help a bit:

http://www.stanford.edu/~fenn/linux/radeon.shtml


Jamie

On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 00:07, samuraiskillz at blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
> yea I figured it was worth a shot. ATI ..... big mistake I think.
> 
> I did find this workaround but I am not convinced:
> 
> In some cases, the kernel source is the correct version, but the necessary
> dependencies are missing. In this case, it may be possible to workaround
> the error as follows (you must become root first):
> 
>     1. cd /usr/src/linux
> 
>     2. Copy your existing kernel options into the source tree as folows:
>         cp /boot/config-`uname -r` /usr/src/linux/.config
> 
>     3. Generate the kernel Makefiles using these settings as follows:
>         make oldconfig
> 
>     4. Generate dependencies as follows:
> 
>         * For kernel 2.4: make dep
>         * For kernel 2.6: make
> 
>     5. Restart the system
> 
>     6. Rebuild and reinstall the kernel module
> 
> Thanks for you help on this one. I cant find usr/src/linux so I give up
> for now.
> 
> cheers
> 
> Dominic
>