Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269911AbUIDLTu (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Sep 2004 07:19:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269907AbUIDLTq (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Sep 2004 07:19:46 -0400 Received: from pengo.systems.pipex.net ([62.241.160.193]:50377 "EHLO pengo.systems.pipex.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269911AbUIDLS3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Sep 2004 07:18:29 -0400 Message-ID: <4139A480.4060306@tungstengraphics.com> Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 12:18:24 +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> <4139995E.5030505@tungstengraphics.com> <20040904120352.B14037@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20040904120352.B14037@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: 1099 Lines: 27 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 11:30:54AM +0100, Keith Whitwell wrote: > >>>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? > > > You could start getting a clue. > You didn't stick with that long Christoph. We're not even past first base yet. Let's try again? So, I've got this file "patch-2.6.8.1.bz2". Lets suppose my older brother comes in & compiles it up for me & I'm now running 2.6.8.1 - it's implausible I know, but let's make it easier for you. Now, why isn't my i915 working? 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/