Re: RH 9.0 - XFree86 4.3.0 - is this right?

On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 18:50, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On 23 Apr 2003, Mark Knecht wrote:
> 
> >   I notice this message in my log file. Is this a problem? This is
> >XFree as shipped by RH 9.0.
> 
> "Red Hat Linux 9", not 9.0.
> 
> >(EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIScreenInit failed because of a version
> >mismatch.
> >[dri] radeon.o kernel module version is 1.1.1 but version 1.5.0 or newer
> >is needed.
> >[dri] Disabling DRI.
> 
> Yes it is a problem.  It indicates that you have replaced the red 
> Hat supplied kernel with a custom kernel which has ancient DRM 
> source code which is incompatible with XFree86 4.3.0.
> 
> Solutions:
> 
> 1) Use the Red Hat kernel which contains the proper DRM modules

Unfortunately not possible, as far as I know. I need a kernel patched
with the low-latency and preemption patches, and they don't seem to
exist for the RH kernel.

> 
> or
> 
> 2) Download the DRM source code for XFree86 4.3.0 and compile 
>    your own DRM modules, possibly messing around a lot to try to 
>    get it to work.
> 
> or
> 
> 3) Disable DRI
> 
> 
> Hope this helps.

It helps a lot, even if it isn't the answer I really wanted! Thanks Mike.

- Mark



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