New guy with Intel 965 issues

[R. G. Newbury]

Matt wrote:

Me again, with the Toshiba laptop......first of all, thanks to all 
who've helped me with this problem thus far. I removed my mesa and 
libdrm packages, then followed the instructions here:

http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Building

Mesa and DRM compiled and installed fine, and I've depmod'd after 
copying the new modules (overwrote old modules....I probably should have 
saved them, but  as it turns out I didn't break anything). X is still 
stuck in software mode  (at least it still runs, so apparently my 
rebuild didn't go completely awry).
But now when I try to modprobe i915, I get an error, "Unknown symbol in
module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)." According to the howto, this 
could require a new kernel....???  dmesg shows the following:

Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
i915: Unknown symbol upper_32bits

Any ideas?

Matt: I was having problems with X/mesa/drm and attempting to build the 
xvmc branch of the intel driver. Kamalmeet Singh suggested here that all 
three portions should be in sync. So I grabbed, consecutively, the SVN's 
of X, mesa and drm, and then re-built the whole lot in one go.
And a number of compile problems disappeared, it made and installed cleanly.
( I used the links on the intel linux graphics page to grab the SVN's,)

I wonder if your problem might not be a similar one. And I also wonder 
why you are using modprobe i915 and not the intel driver?

Geoff

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