Hello, I have a Savage 4 that I wanted to try and activate the 3D stuff. I have read lots about the DRI development on the DRI Wiki pages and went through the mailing list archives quite a bit, but I am still stuck on a few beginner questions. I want to compile the savage.o from the 2.0.0 branch. I downloaded the source from CVS and am ready to start.
Background: I have a Savage4 AGP card on a K7S5A motherboard using Knoppix 3.3 which uses kernel 2.4-22-xfs. I downloaded the savage.o module (version 1.1.27t) from http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html and it works well for me. I also downloaded the Xfree binary in the directory which is 4.3.99.16 in order to use it. My questions. At http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/DRIcompile.html it seems to imply in order to compile the DRI stuff, I need to compile my kernel. What is the reason for this? Is it simply to ensure the kernel has certain things loaded? I know mine has module support which, based on other pages I have read, is the most important thing. Is it absolutely required to compile a new kernel or is this more geared to the assumption that someone might be running an old kernel from an old distribution (like a 2.2 kernel)? Also, in reading the mail list, it seems implied that I have to compile XFree in order to use a DRI module. Is this also absolutely necessary? Is running the 4.3.99 binary good enough? Right now all I have pulled from CVS is the savage branch. Once I know where I stand and how to start, I will probably be bugging people with other questions as I wade through the compilation, but I will cross that bridge when I get to it. Thanks for any information to start with. -- George (Worm) Kohlii head. You could have been lava bones. ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
