Stefan Dirsch wrote:
On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 10:34:53PM +0100, George Billios wrote:
Which patch did you mention?
In the first mail the patch that someone created for the 3.9.0 drivers to work with Suse, comes from the patch for the 3.7.6 (and older) drivers. If you can visit the rage3d.com forums there are many informations about the drivers.
Which other distribution with regparm enabled kernels did you try? Not me, but others are using Mandrake, Fedora Core and Gentoo regparm kernels that work without any patch with the 3.9.0 drivers.
I don't think so. I think the regparm adjustments of ATI are simply not complete.
As I said, people with other distributions can install the drivers without errors and without the need for a patch. Probably ATI has also something to do with it, but under these circumstances SuSE must have done something too.
So you did try the 3.7.6 RPMs built by SuSE and these didn't work?
I've tried the 3.7.6 drivers with Suse 9.0 (upgraded kernel to 2.6) when they were released and they would hang the system. I'm now using the 3.9.0 drivers (with the patch to make it work under Suse) and they are stable but I get the errors I mentioned in the first mail. I can't really understand why the 3.9.0 drivers can't be directly installed under SuSE 9.1 . If you are sure this is not Suse's problem then you should contact ATI in order to solve it.