Re: Building fglrx on Lenny
On Wed July 11 2007 04:32, koffiejunkie wrote:
> I just noticed that kernel 2.6.21 is available in Lenny. Finally - my
> CPU fan will work correctly!
>
> So I have one problem, building the fglrx module fails with this message:
>
> Building modules, stage 2.
> MODPOST 1 modules
> FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module fglrx.ko uses GPL-only symbol
> 'paravirt_ops'
> make[2]: *** [__modpost] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.21-2-k7'
> make: *** [kmod_build] Error 2
>
> Is there a way around this? Strangely, it doesn't happen on 2.6.18
I just installed the ati drivers from the ati website yesterday with that
kernel and it succeeded. Are you building the fglrx package in debian? I had
that problem with the nvidia drivers also. I read at kernel.org that
paravirt_ops is no longer a GPL-only export in the current kernel 2.6.22. I
don't know of a workaround.
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