Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267563AbUIDKpW (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Sep 2004 06:45:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267657AbUIDKpW (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Sep 2004 06:45:22 -0400 Received: from smtp208.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([216.136.130.116]:62634 "HELO smtp208.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S267563AbUIDKpR (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Sep 2004 06:45:17 -0400 Message-ID: <41399CA2.3080607@yahoo.com.au> Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 20:44:50 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040810 Debian/1.7.2-2 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Keith Whitwell CC: Christoph Hellwig , 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> <4139995E.5030505@tungstengraphics.com> In-Reply-To: <4139995E.5030505@tungstengraphics.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1217 Lines: 34 Keith Whitwell wrote: > 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? > Just out of interest, what would the scenario be if you do if you could get a compatible driver? - 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/