thanks a lot.. appreciate if u cd let me know the url where i can download the source of the driver. thnks and reagrds Simon Lord of Gore <lordofgore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: sylvan dacounha wrote: > Hi Mark, > > Thanks for the quick reply. appreciate if you could let me know the location of the driver where i cd download the source > or i could get the latest version of RH kernel > > thnks once again > > > mark wrote: > Hi, Simon, > > sylvan dacounha wrote: > >> I have red hat linux 9 and have downloaded the driver--- Intel(R) >> Graphics Driver for Linux * Driver Revision: v1.1-20041217 for the >> below display >> > > >> now when i try to install it it says The DRI drivers can not be >> installed without the latest kernel modules. Installation will be >> aborted. >> >> how would i upgrade the latest kernel modules >> >> my kernel version is version 2.4.20-8 >> > > You have a *very* old kernel. I ran RH9 until the beginning of this > year, and I was on kernel 2.4.30- > > You have two choices: > - you can d/l the source for the driver, and build it yourself, or > - you can upgrade the whole o/s. > > The latter is, indeed, scary. You'll *not* just be going up a partial > release, but a whole release, and nobody makes a distro that's easy to > upgrade a whole release. > > For the whole o/s, it's not only the kernel, but the binary utilities, > and the Biggest, Scariest thing of all: glibc, which almost *everything* > depends on. > > I would recommend biting the bullet, and doing the upgrade. Another > thing I'd note is that I, personally, wound up going to SuSE, because I > was not comfortable with Fedora, as it seems to be more bleeding edge > than leading edge, and I'm not interested in debugging the o/s. Another > option would be, I gather, centos, which seems to be RedHat Enterprise > with the serial numbers filed off . > > mark > > I think installing the new kernel on rh 9 could prove to be cumbersome... Why don't you try and install FC x? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list --------------------------------- Access over 1 million songs - Yahoo! Music Unlimited. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
