Re: [gentoo-user] DRI lost after modular X and gcc-4.1.1

[Sergio Polini <sp_rm_it@yahoo.it>]

Sorry, I can't understand...

Richard Fish:
> If you want DRI, you have two choices:
>
> 1. the open source radeon driver, with the in-kernel DRM driver. 
> For this you need to turn on CONFIG_DRM and CONFIG_DRM_RADEON in
> your kernel configuration.  This doesn't work for all chips yet
> AFAIK.
>
> 2. the proprietary ATI drivers.  For this you don't change the
> kernel configuration, but add "fglrx" to VIDEO_CARDS, and change
> your xorg.conf driver from "radeon" to "fglrx".

But:
i) as to http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_DRI_with_ATi_Open-Source_Drivers 
there is a third choise: CONFIG_DRM=n and emerge x11-drm;
ii) in http://www.ati.com/products/catalyst/linux.html:
Q7: What X-Windows versions are supported in this driver?
A7: Driver packages are available for XFree86 versions 4.1, 4.2, and 
4.3, as well as X.Org 6.8.
So they shouldn't work with Xorg 7.* (actually I had DRI working with 
Xorg 6.8....)

Jerry McBride:
> I compile the kernel drm, agpgart and 
> ati-agp. I then emerge x11-drm.

But the kernel drm and x11-drm look as they are not to work together.

> > me:
> > How did you compile ati-agp?
>
> I selected it and then compiled them with make modules.

But I just can select "ATI radeon" if I select kernel drm:

<M> Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support)
<M>   ATI Radeon

I do net get ati-agp compiled, and ... make modules should not be 
needed for kernels 2.6.* ;-)

I'm a bit confused.....

Sergio
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