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 var<g>. 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
