On Thursday 11 September 2003 06:15 am, Dave Howorth wrote:
Pat,
I'm not having much success.
I decided to take your advice to upgrade the kernel, so I went to Mantel's site and got the kernel. It is now -67 rather than -64, BTW. I compiled and installed it, apparently without problem (I'm no expert) though I've just noticed from the dmesg that only one CPU is detected (I did make oldconfig, which I thought should pick up the configuration from the previous build? Maybe I need to do cloneconfig again?)
It gives me a system that appears to behave exactly as before (i.e it runs at 640x480 and 800x600 but not 1024x768 or 1280x1024) even though it is not using the fglrx driver (it doesn't show up in lsmod anyway).
I then went to compile the driver but it failed like this:
cpepc210-1:/ # cd /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/ cpepc210-1:/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod # ./make.sh ATI module generator V 2.0 ========================== probing for VMA API version... cleaning... patching 'highmem.h'... skipping patch for 'drmP.h', not needed doing script based build for kernel 2.4.x and similar compiling 'agpgart_be.c'... compiling 'agp3.c'... compiling 'i7505-agp.c'... compiling 'nvidia-agp.c'... compiling 'firegl_public.c'... firegl_public.c:208: error: initializer element is not constant compiling failed - object file was not generated
Any thoughts on this? Or on other possible reasons I can't get it to run at higher resolutions? One other point I thought to mention is that I'm using the DVI-D connection to the monitor.
Cheers, Dave
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Dave, Not sure at this point, someone with a bit more knowledge of Linux may have to step up to the plate and help too. One thing is though, you must have a different model card than I do, as I do not have the DVI-D connector on my card, just the standard 15 & tv & video out. That may be the difference in what we are experiencing with the VESA modes. I haven't tried the -67 Mantel build, so don't know what new things he introduced with it. I was helping test the others to get rid of the direct rendering bug. You can get the same -64 version still though at this alternate mirror. ftp://ftp.rz.uni-ulm.de/pub/mirrors/suse/people/mantel/next/RPM They keep them around for a few days longer than Mantel does and you might try using his version instead of building it, just out of curiousity. Pat -- --- KMail v1.5.3-3 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...