From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HJ3mV-0004yJ-OA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:21:56 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l1J8KmvZ014793; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:20:48 GMT Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za (sqlprd.sybase.co.za [192.96.139.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l1J8GjMp010280 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:16:47 GMT Received: from localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BD438346E for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:23:46 +0200 (SAST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sybase.co.za Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id wcfzUWCDvvtN for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:23:34 +0200 (SAST) Received: from bard.sybase.co.za (bard.sybase.co.za [192.168.2.6]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 029B483426 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:22:56 +0200 (SAST) Received: from nazgul.sybase.co.za ([192.168.2.68]) by bard.sybase.co.za with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:17:43 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cryptic warning message x11-drivers:ati-drivers-8.32.5 build Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:13:36 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <20070218053010.GA9098@waltdnes.org> In-Reply-To: <20070218053010.GA9098@waltdnes.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200702191013.36320.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Feb 2007 08:17:43.0249 (UTC) FILETIME=[6DCFEC10:01C753FE] X-Archives-Salt: 78e67c32-ae8a-4513-b380-8c54bfe340ff X-Archives-Hash: 972dd268503ae9e99590c93e2e9daa57 On Sunday 18 February 2007, Walter Dnes wrote: > I ran an emerge --sync, and updated --world a few minutes ago. For > the x11-drivers:ati-drivers-8.32.5 build, I found the following > warning message... > > WARN: setup > You have DRM support enabled builtin, the direct rendering will not > work. > > As near as I can tell, this is something like ALSA, where you're > not supposed to enable it in the kernel, but rather in the module. > What exactly am I supposed to do to get DRM to work? Rconfigure and recompile the kernel: make menuconfig -> Device Drivers -> Character Devices -> Direct Rendering Manager make it a module. Or, you can just deselect it as the ati drivers provide their own drm implementation. If you leave the in-kernel version enabled as a module you will have to ensure that the drm module is not loaded when X starts This is all documented by ATI in nice html format in an "ati*" directory in /usr/share/doc/ alan -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list