Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266200AbUIDVHN (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Sep 2004 17:07:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266196AbUIDVHM (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Sep 2004 17:07:12 -0400 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:16080 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S266195AbUIDVGw (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Sep 2004 17:06:52 -0400 Subject: Re: New proposed DRM interface design From: Lee Revell To: Dave Airlie Cc: Nick Piggin , Keith Whitwell , Christoph Hellwig , Jon Smirl , dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel In-Reply-To: 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> <41399CA2.3080607@yahoo.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1094332018.6575.329.camel@krustophenia.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 17:06:59 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2080 Lines: 52 On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 06:54, Dave Airlie wrote: > > > > Just out of interest, what would the scenario be if you do if you could > > get a compatible driver? > > It's one of the major successes I feel of the DRI project, those > snapshots allowed people with Radeon IGP chipsets to get 3d acceleration > long before now (they still can't get it any current distro), same goes > for i915 as Keith points out.. > OK, please explain how I install the latest Unichrome DRI driver. The docs at the unichrome site are correct except they refer to this guide which is out of date: http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/Building How do you expect users to 'just grab the new release' if *your own user documentation* is incorrect (from the above page): NOTE that these instructions may be out of date. According to http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=9295537 parts of DRI have moved to a new repository. "Mesa and DRM are still in the same repositories on freedesktop.org. But the DRI enabled DDX drivers are now developped in Xorg CVS instead of DRI CVS. See http://xorg.freedesktop.org for details." Wow, thanks, that explains everything! This should not be hard. I have built and installed Xorg from CVS. I know what I am doing. What the heck is a non-coder supposed to do? All I need is to figure out how to build unichrome_dri.so. There seems to be a unichrome directory in the Xorg, Mesa, and DRI CVS trees. I should just be able to cd to this directory and type make or make unichrome_dri.so or something, just like I do to install the via DRI kernel module, or ALSA modules, or any other kernel module with a reasonable build process. Does not work. If someone tells me how to do this I promise to post a HOWTO. Lee - 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/