Re: [gentoo-user] Cryptic warning message x11-drivers:ati-drivers-8.32.5 build
On Wednesday 21 February 2007, Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 10:13:36AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote Rconfigure and recompile the kernel: make menuconfig - Device Drivers - Character Devices - Direct Rendering Manager make it a module. Or, you can just deselect it as the ati drivers provide their own drm implementation. If you leave the in-kernel version enabled as a module you will have to ensure that the drm module is not loaded when X starts Thanks for the explanation of the process. Yr welcome This is all documented by ATI in nice html format in an ati* directory in /usr/share/doc/ Not if I have -doc in my USE varg. I know the feeling. I keep taking doc out of my USE and putting it back in. Never can make up my mind On the one hand, /usr/share/doc has been almost 2G big (!) at times, and otoh one can miss the really useful stuff alan -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Cryptic warning message x11-drivers:ati-drivers-8.32.5 build
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 10:13:36AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote Rconfigure and recompile the kernel: make menuconfig - Device Drivers - Character Devices - Direct Rendering Manager make it a module. Or, you can just deselect it as the ati drivers provide their own drm implementation. If you leave the in-kernel version enabled as a module you will have to ensure that the drm module is not loaded when X starts Thanks for the explanation of the process. This is all documented by ATI in nice html format in an ati* directory in /usr/share/doc/ Not if I have -doc in my USE varg. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Cryptic warning message x11-drivers:ati-drivers-8.32.5 build
On Sunday 18 February 2007, Walter Dnes wrote: I ran an emerge --sync, and updated --world a few minutes ago. For the x11-drivers:ati-drivers-8.32.5 build, I found the following warning message... WARN: setup You have DRM support enabled builtin, the direct rendering will not work. As near as I can tell, this is something like ALSA, where you're not supposed to enable it in the kernel, but rather in the module. What exactly am I supposed to do to get DRM to work? Rconfigure and recompile the kernel: make menuconfig - Device Drivers - Character Devices - Direct Rendering Manager make it a module. Or, you can just deselect it as the ati drivers provide their own drm implementation. If you leave the in-kernel version enabled as a module you will have to ensure that the drm module is not loaded when X starts This is all documented by ATI in nice html format in an ati* directory in /usr/share/doc/ alan -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Cryptic warning message x11-drivers:ati-drivers-8.32.5 build
I ran an emerge --sync, and updated --world a few minutes ago. For the x11-drivers:ati-drivers-8.32.5 build, I found the following warning message... WARN: setup You have DRM support enabled builtin, the direct rendering will not work. As near as I can tell, this is something like ALSA, where you're not supposed to enable it in the kernel, but rather in the module. What exactly am I supposed to do to get DRM to work? -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
