On Wednesday 02 Oct 2013 08:06:42 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 02/10/2013 09:02, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > On 10/01/2013 08:16:23 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> Am 01.10.2013 10:00, schrieb Helmut Jarausch: > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > in "good" tradition the new 3.12 Linux kernel breaks ati-drivers > >> > again (as always in the past). > >> > Does anybody know about a patch to make > >> > x11-drivers/ati-drivers:legacy > >> > compile with linux-3.12-rc3 ? > >> > > >> > Trying to emerge ati-drivers-13.1_pre897 (currently the only legacy > >> > driver) > >> > with 3.12-rc3 gives > >> > > >> > MODPOST 1 modules > >> > > >> > FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module fglrx.ko uses GPL-only symbol > >> > 'acpi_bus_get_device' > >> > > >> > Many thanks for a hint, > >> > Helmut > >> > >> so you are using a driver meant for stable (old) systems, with a pre > >> release kernel - and you don't even know what do do with that message? > > > > I'm quite sure there are a lot of things which you don't known either. > > > >> Does that do no seem a bit silly? hm? > > > > Thanks for this compliment! > > > >> acpi_bus_get_device is gpl only. You can undo that. If you want. > >> > >> But seriously, what is wrong with using stable releases like 3.10.x? If > >> you use ati-drivers, you don't need the amd driver improvements in 3.11 > >> or 3.12. > > > > There are two points here: > > - first I consider it as my contribution to GenToo to help testing. > > > > The problem with the 3.12 prerelease will definitely continue with the > > > > main release > > > > coming in about 4 weeks. > > > > - This 3.12 prerelease has a lot of BTRFS pataches. Since I'm using > > BTRFS for most of > > > > my file systems, I like to have the most recent fixes. > > Calm down boys. > > > Helmut, the problem is that you are trying to use ATI's proprietary code > with GPL code in the kernel. > > The kernel devs do not want you to do that and that is their right. > > What you should have done in your mail is indicate that you read the > error message and understand it, and why you want to continue > regradless. Then you should have mentioned what Google told you about > the problem, or something to show what you already did to help yourself. > > As it stands you post is really just asking someone else to do your > homework for you and that you are too lazy to do it yourself. I'm sure > that's not want you are really doing, it just looks that way.
Curious, is there a reason you are not using the radeon driver instead of the ati proprietary drivers? -- Regards, Mick
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