Re: 2.5 'what to expect'

From: Wichert Akkerman (wichert@wiggy.net)
Date: Fri Jul 11 2003 - 21:31:05 EST

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Previously Alan Cox wrote:
> On Gwe, 2003-07-11 at 15:02, Dave Jones wrote:
> > - Older Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) support (For XFree86 4.0)
> > has been removed. Upgrade to XFree86 4.1.0 or higher.
>
> The current 2.5 DRM doesnt seem to work with 4.1, but does with 4.3 at
> least on my testing of i810. I need to double check the results unless
> others see the same

If memory servers me correctly at least the XFree86 4.3.0 radeon driver
want a newer version of the kernel DRM modules than is present in
current 2.5. Unfortunately the code from the last DRI snapshot does not
seem to compile with 2.5.74 (haven't tried 2.5.75 yet).

Wichert.

-- Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net> It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple.

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