Hi Alain,
On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 00:08, Alain O.Miniussi wrote:
> I explained some of it in the mail but I just restarted from scratch and here
> is the situation:
>
> I downloaded and installed the 2.4.14 kernel, with agp support on and
> drm support off.
>
> I downloaded Xfree 4.1.99.1, compiled it, installed it. I am not sure what to
> do next, but here is what I tried:
>
> According to Adam email, I should get the drm support for the i830 in:
> in Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/drm/kernel/
> If I go there and do a make, it says to run "make -f Makefile.linux" to
> get drm.o
> If I do that, I don't get any drm.o but that is probably just a doc glitch, I
> do get a few .o, among them:
> i810_drv_.o i810_dma.o and i810.o (and nothing else with i8?0 in it)
Ummmm, Alain - the i830* files have to be there. If You go to XFree86
CVS web interface
http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/drm/kernel/
You will clearly see at least theese files :
i830.h
i830_dma.c
i830_drm.h
i830_drv.c
i830_drv.h
if You don't have them - Your cvs checkout was somehow wrong. BTW. How
did You get Your XFree86 4.1.99.1 ?
So please try to get the files there - then using the "make -f
Makefile.linux" command You should generate the i830.o module.
> i810.i is just i810_drv.o and i810_dma.o linked together so I guess I
> can forget those two and that i810.o is the drm module I need and
> should go somewhere in /lib/module/2.4.14/..../char/
Yes, that's where I have put my i830.o module. Remember to launch a
"depmod -a" after copying the file and load it ("modprobe i830") before
You start X.
>
> I really don't know what to do next.
Even if You don't succeed in getting the i830 drm module working -
don't worry - X will work without it, only with degraded performance.
You can simply use the XF86Config file I enclosed in my previous e-mail.
>
> Note that there is not a single file with i830 in it's name in the whole tree.
That is really weird - You should at least have the files I mentioned
earlier and a couple of "i830*" files in:
http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/i810/
Again I am really surprised that You don't have them. Please make sure
You got them , otherwise Your X version doesn't differ that much from
4.1.0 that You have already tried.
>
> Do you know if there is any documentation on how to deal with that chip ?
Have hope - it really can be done :)
Adam
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