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Re: Kernel for X4 with DRI?



Previously Svante Signell wrote:
> 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?

Not completely, there is a backport of the DRI code to the 2.2 kernels
in 2.2.18pre17 and later.

> 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?)

RH has lots of patches in their kernels, DRI is one of them in RH7.

Wichert.

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