On Friday 18 July 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Mick wrote: > > [...] > > For some reason on the 2.6.24-gentoo-r8 kernel the xf86-video-ati fails > > to install any modules, hence this message. I haven't configured this > > box for ages so I may be misunderstanding something here. Do I have to > > switch to the kernel drivers? > > You need to compile a kernel with DRM + ATI Radeon support. If you're > not running this kernel in more than one machine, you can compile it in > the kernel; no reason to make it a module. If you intent to also try > the proprietary driver, then you need to make it a module (because this > driver provides its own DRM module.)
Right, found it - for some reason I had not emerged x11-base/x11-drm, which places the radeon.ko under /lib/modules/<kernel_name>/x11-drm/ module-rebuild would pick this up of course, but I suspect I hadn't run it after I compiled a kernel last time. Better make a note of this for the future! Thank you all for your help. :) -- Regards, Mick
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