[PATCH 3/4] PreReq: Check for KMS and PageFlip support

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Thu Feb 17 01:27:51 PST 2011


From: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek at gmail.com>


Signed-off-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek at gmail.com>
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 building.html |    6 ++++++
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/building.html b/building.html
index b2fb2b0..50a7435 100644
--- a/building.html
+++ b/building.html
@@ -42,6 +42,12 @@ and nVidia graphics cards. Most distributions ship with KMS enabled by default.
 The KMS driver must also support the PageFlip IOCTL, which is currently
 the case for Intel and AMD/ATI graphics cards (XXX: nVidia?).
 Furthermore, a ddx (X video driver) with pageflip support is also required.
+
+Check for KMS and PageFlip support:
+<pre>
+$ dmesg | grep -i 'modeset'
+$ egrep -i 'kms|pageflip' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
+</pre>
 </p>
 
 <h2>Building mesa without Wayland EGL platform</h2>
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