Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269877AbUIDKbD (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Sep 2004 06:31:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269876AbUIDKbD (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Sep 2004 06:31:03 -0400 Received: from colossus.systems.pipex.net ([62.241.160.73]:50906 "EHLO colossus.systems.pipex.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269875AbUIDKa7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Sep 2004 06:30:59 -0400 Message-ID: <4139995E.5030505@tungstengraphics.com> Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 11:30:54 +0100 From: Keith Whitwell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040817 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Dave Airlie , Jon Smirl , dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: New proposed DRM interface design References: <20040904004424.93643.qmail@web14921.mail.yahoo.com> <20040904102914.B13149@infradead.org> <41398EBD.2040900@tungstengraphics.com> <20040904104834.B13362@infradead.org> <413997A7.9060406@tungstengraphics.com> <20040904112535.A13750@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20040904112535.A13750@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1049 Lines: 24 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 11:23:35AM +0100, Keith Whitwell wrote: > >>>Actually regulat users do. And they do by pulling an uptodate kernel or >>>using a vendor kernel with backports. This model would work for video drivers >>>aswell. >> >>Sure, explain to me how I should upgrade my RH-9 system to work on my new i915? > > > Download a new kernel.org kernel or petition the fedora legacy folks to > include a drm update. The last release RH-9 kernel has various security > and data integrity issues anyway, so you'd be a fool to keep running it. OK, I've found www.kernel.org, and clicked on the 'latest stable kernel' link. I got a file called "patch-2.6.8.1.bz2". I tried to install this but nothing happened. My i915 still doesn't work. What do I do now? Keith - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/