Steven Beeckman wrote:
> Martin, if you want you may explain to me how to get the ATI Radeon 9200
> to work on a brand new Slackware 10.0 ;-). The docs of DRI speak about
> getting the CVS of X.Org, configuring the kernel [...]
I don't know which release of X11 is being shipped with Slackware 10.0,
I haven't been using Slackware for almost ten years now :-)
I'd assume you have XFree86-4.3.0 or later (the later, the better).
If you really dare to compile XOrg from source you'd start with
creating a backup of /etc/X11/ and /usr/X11R6/, although stock
XFree86-4.3.x should work as well.
To get DRI working you should build the correct AGP driver and DRM into
your kernel ("AGP Support" and "Direct Rendering Manager" in the
"Character devices" sub-menue). You might have to find out which AGP
driver matches your mainboard. I assume most distributions include AGP
drivers for almost every known chipset in their kernel package.
In order to build XOrg, get a copy via:
cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/xorg checkout xc
(300 MByte). Create a copy of the 'xc' directory - you might want to
have a clean tree for later use :-) Create a file 'host.def' in the
'config/cf/' directory which contains a single line:
#define NothingOutsideProjectRoot YES
in order to make sure, nothings gets changed outside /usr/X11R6/ and
/etc/X11/ during 'make install' (remember: you have copies of these two
directories). Change to your 'xc' directory and call 'make World'. Have
some cups of tee and call 'make install' after the world is done :-)
You'll need approximately another 400 MByte to compile X11.
You might want to grab a copy of this file:
http://document.ihg.uni-duisburg.de/Misc/xorg.conf.r200
and call it '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' in order to get yout Radeon9200
running.
Good luck,
Martin.
--
Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are !
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________
Flightgear-devel mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
