[wplug] I'm a Linux whimp (need kernel help)

[Robert E. Coutch]

Alright you bunch of topic hijackers .... listen up !!!!

(Just teasing! Don't take offense OR ELSE )


So here's how it went.

I re-downloaded CVS and attempted to make World which resulted in LOTS of 
errors again.

I took another look at the only thing that came close to working.
I went back to the DRI snapshot ftp directory.

Along with the savage stuff I noticed a common tarball and downloaded it.
I extracted the common tarball and then the savage tarball.
I noticed they were made to intergrate with each other.

I re-ran the install script and everything compiled and loaded just like last 
time.

I loaded the savage module and started X.

I fire up a 3D app. (Chromium) and the system freezes.
I reboot and try the same thing again and get the same results.

Today I fire up the laptop and let it boot into init 5.
I log in and realize I didn't load the savage module.

I run glxinfo and see direct rendering is ENABLED.
I run Chromium and it runs !!!!!

So now I have what I wanted, 3D acceleration on my laptop's SuperSavage IX/C 
chipset.

I still remain clueless as to kernel.
Do they make a kernel for dummies book by any chance?


-Bob
 


On Sunday 14 August 2005 07:01 pm, Robert E. Coutch wrote:
> Just when I think things are going
> well.......................................
>
> So I fix up my xorg.conf and manually load the savage.ko module with
> modprobe. I fire up X and get a message about my DRI and kernel modules
> being different versions.
>
> No direct rendering.
>
> I fooled with merging in the /usr/src/kernel-modules/dri into
> the /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/drm directory.
>
> After a make modules, still no savage modules.
>
> I'm going to try the CVS stuff again tonight.
>
> Is anyone out there following this and see what I might be doing wrong?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob
>
> On Sunday 14 August 2005 01:55 pm, Robert E. Coutch wrote:
> > The tips below seemed to work and I was able to do a make modules.
> >
> > Here's the problems I ran into.
> >
> > The modules I need made are in a directory called 
> > /usr/src/kernel-modules There's nothing in that directory tree for Make
> > to work.
> > There are source and header files in there.
> >
> > I tried copying savage.c, savage.h and all other savage.* files
> > into /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/drm and retried make modules.
> > All modules were built except for the savage ones.
> >
> > I re-attempted running the install script from the dri project.
> > Again it barked about no kernel config found.
> >
> > I googled and found these steps:
> > cd /usr/src/linux
> > zcat /proc/config.gz > .config
> > make oldconfig
> >
> > Now the install script runs much further along until it states:
> > Symbol version dump /usr/src/linux-2.6.11.4-21.8/Module.symvers is
> > missing
> >
> > This file is not under /usr/src/linux either.
> >
> > On a whim,
> > I copied the savage* files (.c and .h) over
> > to /usr/src/linux-2.6.11.4-21.8/drivers/char/drm
> > and did a make modules from the /usr/src/linux-2.4.11.4-21.8 directory.
> > I saw it compile every module in the drm directory EXCEPT the ones I
> > added in. Obviously I'm missing something.
> >
> > Then I do an ls and see that Module.symvers is now there.
> >
> > I re-run the install script from the dri people.
> > Poof - it finally works.
> >
> > I still have no idea what happened and why inserting the .c and .h code
> > from SuSE into the source tree did nothing.
> >
> > Any comments?
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Bob
> >
> > On Friday 12 August 2005 02:53 pm, Robert E. Coutch wrote:
> > > Hey - that's a hot tip.  Thanks!!
> > >
> > > I haven't had time to start fooling with that laptop since I send that
> > > first email to the group.
> > >
> > > Work has been keeping me very busy so I'll take another swing at the
> > > laptop this weekend.
> > >
> > > -Bob
> > >
> > > On Friday 12 August 2005 08:37 am, Poyner, Brandon wrote:
> > > > > Well - It looks like I need to make a kernel config !!!
> > > > >
> > > > > These are the things I have nightmares about.
> > > > > Wish me luck - I'm going in.
> > > >
> > > > Since I didn't see anybody else mention it, one thing SuSe does is
> > > > include the current kernel configuration inside the kernel itself,
> > > > which you can find at /proc/config.gz.  They have made it as simple
> > > > as:
> > > >
> > > > cd /usr/src/linux && make cloneconfig
> > > >
> > > > Of course you could also 'zcat /proc/config.gz >
> > > > /usr/src/linux/.config' and work it from there with 'make oldconfig'.
> > > >
> > > > Brandon Poyner
> > > > Network Engineer III
> > > > CCAC - College Office
> > > > 412-237-3086
> > > >
> > > >
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