Re: Kernel for X4 with DRI?

[Svante Signell <svante.signell@telia.com>]

See below:

Michael Meding writes:
 > Svante Signell wrote:
 > > 
 > > After some minor tweaking 4.0.1 is now running on my (woody) SMP machine
 > > with a G400 card, thank you Branden!
 > > (except the Swedish letters don't work in xterm, they did in v3.3.x)
 > > 
 > > However, for 3D acceleration my custom built 2.2.17 kernel is lacking
 > > the mga.o file. Obviously one has to compile a v2.4pre kernel to get
 > > access to the kernel modules for DRI. Is this true? I would prefer to
 > > stay with 2.2.x until 2.4.0 is released. (RH have them already in
 > > kernels 2.2.16-24 and 2.2.17-4. Are these kernels patched by RH?)
 > 
 > Thing is that there are different drm versions out there. The one used
 > in the card specific kernel module should match the one used in the dri
 > part of the XFree package. And yes there is no such thing as a plain
 > redhat kernel. All redhat ones are highly patched ones. You should look
 > for 2.2.18pre20. You need agpgart support in order to get hardware 3d
 > running. This is only in latest 2.2.18pre and 2.4test.
My 2.2.17 kernel is already patched for agpgart, since this is needed
for utah-glx to work with HW accel.
 > 
 > Hopefully I have been helpful. For further information please see
 > dri.sourceforge.net , then compile and userguide.
 > 
 > Greetings
 > 
 > Michael