Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 13:39:51 -0400 From: Carl Glen Henshaw <ghenshaw@space.nrl.navy.mil> To: lreid@okstate.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dri falling back to software in 4.8-stable Message-ID: <200308051339.51970.ghenshaw@space.nrl.navy.mil> In-Reply-To: <522433577.1060038127017.JavaMail.root@dexter.okstate.edu> References: <522433577.1060038127017.JavaMail.root@dexter.okstate.edu>
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On Monday 04 August 2003 07:02 pm, lreid@okstate.edu wrote: > [CC'd for anyone who may need this resolution] > > Hi Carl, > Yes, I actually did determine the resolution to the problem. Since I had > been running the system since 4.7-release, I used the drm-kmod package in > the ports tree to get the DRI support. An undocumented (as far as I can > tell) change from 4.7-stable to 4.8-stable includes the drm kernel module > in the kernel module sources, and the drm-kmod port is depricated. If you > remove the drm-kmod startup script from /usr/local/etc/rc.d, optionaly > pkg_delete the drm-kmod package, and rebuild your kernel with options drm > and agp added, you should have hardware support upon loading the new > kernel. I've browsed through the UPDATING file from my last source update > and I've found no mention of this change between 4.7-release and > 4.8-release. Does anyone know why? (my being dense is a perfectly valid > reason) I also discovered that you must install the -stable sources *from cvs*, and then make the /usr/src/sys/modules/drm directory in order for drm to show up as a kernel module. It's not there in the default binary install, and installing the sources via /stand/sysinstall doesn't do it either. Odd. In any case, it works now. Thanks for the help. Glen ____________________________________________________________ Dr. Glen Henshaw (202) 767-1196 Naval Center for Space Technology ghenshaw@space.nrl.navy.mil U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
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