Re: [gentoo-amd64] another "little" problem appeared (ATI driver/direct rendering/kernel)

["Florian D." <flockmock@gmx.at>]

Michel Merinoff wrote:
> Well, I had been using the kernel 2.6.17-r8 and everything seemed ok
> with the subj. But then I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.18-r1, and there's
> one feature I can't get started with.
> As it is said in a few faqs (including gentoo faq) of howto install DRI,
> in order to get the thing working you must enable kernel agp support
> with the proper driver installed. My driver seemed to be
> CONFIG_AGP_AMD64. It was enabled in the kernel previous, it is enabled
> in the kernel actual:
> michel@michelle /usr/src/linux $ cat .config|grep AGP_AMD64
> CONFIG_AGP_AMD64=y
> 
> But it is not seen when I use make menuconfig. I syncronically checked
> all the options which were enabled at the previous kernel, but it did
> not appear, and I can't find out why. I tried to check dependencies, but
> didn't succeed.
> 
> And the thing is dri doesn't work with 2.6.18-r1. I checked 2.6.17-r8,
> it does.
hi,
it is in:
  -> Device Drivers 
           	-> Character devices

on my computer, it has been selected by another config-item (I don´t know which one, though), so I 
cannot change it. On your computer it is obviously the same.


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