Re: Building Ati Radeon 9000 module for Debian bf24 Kernel

[lameth <lameth@comcast.net>]

Well I actually got the make file pointed to all the right directories, 
kernel-headers-2.4.18bf2.4 and the correct drm firectory in 
kernel-source-2.4.18. Ran the make.sh script and ended up with this error:
firegl_public.c:694: redefinition of `__cmpxchg'
patch/drivers/char/drm/drmP.h:276: `__cmpxchg' previously defined here
compiling failed - object file was not generated
I'm thinking I should have bought an Nvidia based card. I'll try you're 
suggestion next before I consider seeing if there's a debian kernel that 
fits one of the prebuilt modules.

Kevin McKinley wrote:

> On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 18:27:53 -0400
> lameth <lameth@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>  
>
> > When I installed Debian I selected the BF24 flavor of the pre built 
> > kernel but I've check and there are no source packages for it. Since I 
> > couldn't find the sources for Bf24 I downloaded kernel-source-2.4.18. I 
> > modified a line in the make script to point to 
> > /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/include/linux. When I run the make script 
> > it tells me I have an incomplete version of my source files.
> >
> > Am I pointing the make script to the right directory? Can I build a 
> > module for the bf24 kernel using the kernel-source-2.4.18 source code?
> >    
>
> Last question first. kernel-source-2.4.18 is the package used for all 2.4.18
> kernels, including -bf2.4. So yes, you have the right package.
>
> I suspect you would have better results building your ATI module if you did
> this:
>
> 1. Undo whatever modification you made in whichever makefile you made it.
> 2. Make a symbolic link to the kernel source tree:
> 	bash:/usr/src$ ln -s kernel-source-2.4.18 linux
> 3. Copy the bf2.4 kernel config to the top directory of the kernel source:
> 	bash:/usr/src/linux$ cp /boot/config-2.4.18-bf2.4 .config
> 4. Do "make oldconfig && make dep"
> 5. Build your ATI module(s).
>
> Kevin
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