Building Radeon drivers on 2.6.x kernel rpms.

[Mike A. Harris]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Gavin Graham wrote:

>It seems that the kernel headers for 2.6.x are somehow incorrect.

I seriously doubt that.


>I say this as I am trying to build the ATI Radeon drivers and I get the
>following error message:
>
>[root at localhost fglrx]# cd build_mod/
>[root at localhost build_mod]# ./make.sh
>ATI module generator V 2.0
>==========================
>initializing...
>Error:
>XFree86 drm includes at
>/lib/modules/2.6.1-1.65smp/build/include/../drivers/char/drm do not fit
>this driver.
>This driver is designed to only work with X4.1.0 or higher.
>You can match this by getting Linux kernel 2.4.8 or higher.
>
>
>This has been happening with every release of the Fedora Dev kernel RPMS
>for 2.6.x and it also happens with Arjan's kernel too.

Tough luck.  ;o)

>I know there is some issues with the Radeon drivers that need to be
>overcome for successfull compilation under 2.6.x but this specific
>problem seems to be moreso with the actual kernel packages.
>
>Can anyone shed some light on this??

support at ati.com?


Seriously, see bug #73733 in bugzilla.


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