[Openchrome-users] Build DRM module in FC4?

[Xavier Bachelot]

Lewin Edwards wrote:
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>>  I'm having a problem building the DRM kernel module. The latest svn
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>     Use either a recent drm for FC4 or the latest from:
>     http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Building
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> I think I'm almost there. I built and installed the latest cvs checkout 
> from the above location. No problems except that I had to hack the 
> kernel version checking again (why does FC have to screw around with 
> this? grrr). According to the kernel and X logs, everything loads OK. 
> However, glxinfo still says no direct rendering, and although 
> the general performance isn't as sluggish as it was with the older drm 
> version, it is quite slow. The mousepointer movement is also rather 
> jerky. I see from dmesg that the IRQ gets disabled, which is a known 
> problem according to the list...
>  
> I can almost live with the jerky mousepointer, but it seems that DRI 
> isn't actually _doing_ anything on my system - what am I missing?
> 
> 
You will not get 3D accel with the regular FC4 xorg, iirc. You need a 
more recent mesa.

I don't want to push you to do something you don't want to, but you 
should follow Ivor advice. http://washington.kelkoo.net/epia has all 
that you want. The whole install only involves adding a yum repo to your 
conf and a simple yum update :-) ah no sorry, also yum install 
kernel-modules-via-drm-`uname -r`, but this is not mandatory as you 
already have a proper drm installed.

Regards,

Xavier