Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269883AbUIDLtS (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Sep 2004 07:49:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269897AbUIDLs4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Sep 2004 07:48:56 -0400 Received: from pengo.systems.pipex.net ([62.241.160.193]:4815 "EHLO pengo.systems.pipex.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269883AbUIDLoM (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Sep 2004 07:44:12 -0400 Message-ID: <4139AA87.8030203@tungstengraphics.com> Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 12:44:07 +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: <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> <4139A480.4060306@tungstengraphics.com> <20040904122044.A14310@infradead.org> <4139A759.7040503@tungstengraphics.com> <20040904123330.A14484@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20040904123330.A14484@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: 1216 Lines: 31 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 12:30:33PM +0100, Keith Whitwell wrote: > >>>>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? >>> >>> >>>Because the drm developer took a long time to submit the driver after >>>is was finished as they develop in a separate CVS tree instead of the kernel >>>tree. >> >>OK, fair enough. We've been spoilt in the past with "automatic" merges >>courtesy of some nice LKML types. >> >>But, now I've compiled 2.6.9 or whatever, it's still not working. My brother >>says he won't come in and do any more work on my computer, so you'll have to >>help me out from here... > > > Here's a nickel, buy yourself some supported distribution and talk to their > support people. Or I could just buy an closed-source card instead. 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/