Re: New ProSavage VIA KN/M266 Chipset Drivers with 3D/OpenGL/DRI Support ?!

Thomas Dodd <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.xfree86
Message-ID <[email protected]>

Simon Clift wrote:
> To make a long story short, the driver seems to want XFree
> 4.2.0, not 4.3.0 and as much as I hacked away at it, I
> couldn't get the darn thing to compile.  I just don't know
> enough about the XFree source code to be useful, so I have
> leave it to the experts.  Sorry, I gave it a shot.

Building X drivers withouth following the full X build is nearly 
impossible. First I'd make a working patch to, properly add the new 
driver, and remove the old. Then add that patch to the the SRPM and 
apply it in the spec file. Rebuild the RPM from that, or at least 
through the install stage (rpmbuild -bi).

Then you can get the new driver to go in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers 
and modules/dri.

Now you need to get the kernel modules to build.
It might be easier to develop a kernel patch and build a new kernel 
(with rpm again) to support this driver.

	-Thomas


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