drm/mesa/ati R5xx 3D support: What is the correct compilation order?

[Alex Deucher]

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 2:43 AM, Stefan Becker <Stefan.Becker at nokia.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to follow Alex's blog entry under
>
>    <http://www.botchco.com/agd5f/?p=27>
>
> but I can't get any 3D to work on my Lenove T60 (Mobility X1300) with
> Fedora 9. It uses xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.4.99.901-29.20080415.fc9, i.e.
> a relatively new xserver git.
>
>
> Here is the order I figured out:
>
>   F9 libdrm RPM:
>    - update source from
> <http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/drm/?h=r345-cleanup>
>    - build
>    - install
>
>   F9 mesa RPM:
>    - update source from
> <http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/?h=r500-support>
>    - build
>    - install
>
>   xf86-video-ati driver:
>    - update to latest git
>    - compile
>    - install
>
>   kernel drm & radeon module:
>    - take source from libdrm RPM created above
>    - in linux-core: make DRM_MODULES=radeon
>    - copy radeon.ko & drm.ko to /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/updates
>    - depmod -ae
>    - remove old modules from memory: modprobe -r radeon


You need drm from git master.

Alex