ATI 8500 3D - Long reply.

[Bob Chiodini]

On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 09:31, Peter Hutnick wrote:

> So I found the instructions at http://www.fedorafaq.org/#radeon, thanks 
> to Lisa's helpful links message from the 3rd.  (Linked by Craig in the 
> amusing "Curt tone?" thread.)
> 
> I followed the instructions to the letter.  The patch went fine.  When 
> it came time to do the "sh make.sh" I ran into problems:
> 
>     [root at bilbo build_mod]# patch -p1 -i /mnt/usb/fglrx-3.9.0-fc2.patch
>     patching file 2.6.x/Makefile
>     patching file firegl_public.c
>     patching file firegl_public.h
>     patching file make.sh
> 
> So far, so good.
> 
>     [root at bilbo build_mod]# sh make.sh
>     ATI module generator V 2.0
>     ==========================
>     initializing...
>     Error:
>     XFree86 drm includes at
>     /lib/modules/2.6.6-1.435.2.3/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.
>     [root at bilbo build_mod]#
> 
> The system is not connected to the Internet, but I /am/ on all the 
> latest updates, including xorg-x11-6.7.0-5.i386.rpm and friends, thanks 
> to a USB hard drive and "rpm -Uvh --freshen."  I did have problems with 
> the "fam" and "fam-devel" packages but everything else is up to date. 
> I'm pretty sure that fam isn't related to the problem.  I have 
> kernel-2.6.6-1.435.2.3.i686.rpm installed (and running, bye-bye uptime 
> :-(  ) and the associated kernel-sourcecode package, 
> kernel-sourcecode-2.6.6-1.435.2.3.noarch.rpm, installed as well.  I'm 
> not sure if it is needed for building this driver.

Peter,

The make.sh script has a Fedora workaround to look in
/usr/src/linux-`uname -r`/drivers/char/drm for certain files to
determine the version of XFree86.  When you run make.sh it's looking in
/lib/modules/2.6.6-1.435.2.3/build/include.

I ran the same procedure here without problems.  I'm also running the
stock 2.6.6-1.435.2.3.  

One other thought:  Do you have a /usr/src/linux directory (or link)? 
If so, try moving it and rerunning make.sh

Bob...
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