Good luck with the gatos modules, they compile fine but the documentation sucks, I'm not even sure where to put them, as my C experience is with only piddly GCI and console type apps, I don't know the kernel well enough to guess that kind of thing.
On Wednesday 27 February 2002 08:26, Mike Diack wrote: > XFree86 4.2.0 as in Mdk 8.2, as used with (my) Radeon cards, uses > a newer version (ati.2) from gatos.sf.net. > > This is all well and good with Mandrake's own kernel and X, since > Mandrake's own kernel includes the very latest 1.2.x Radeon drivers > from that project. > > However the generic kernels, including 2.4.17 and 2.4.18 use the older > drivers, meaning that X in Mandrake 8.2 WON'T load the 3D DRM section > i.e. no 3D hardware acceleration. > > This means that rolling my own kernel based on the standard kernels > (as I've done in Mandrake 7.x and 8.0/8.1) is not really an option > anymore, unless I get the patches and apply them (not yet tried this > but I presume it'll work well). > > Does anyone have answers to either of these questions: > > 1) Any idea if the X setup in Mandrake 8.2 could be made to work seamlessly > with either module (either the old 1.1.x driver's in the standard 2.4.x > kernels) or the newer ones? Or an easy way of switching? > > 2) Does anyone have visibilty as to how soon the 1.2.x drivers might > make it into the standard 2.4.x kernels and if so whether they are > compatible with older (< 4.2.0) versions of XFree86? > > Thanks for any answers > Mike > newer ones.. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com -- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Jason Straight -- President BlazeConnect Internet Services -- Cheboygan Michigan ISP: www.blazeconnect.net Products: www.blazeconnect.com Phone: 231-597-0376 -- Fax: 231-597-0393
