> From: J Hayward <jimhayward@earthlink.net> > > On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 11:05, Dave Reed wrote: > >=20 > > Since they were on sale, I went ahead and bought a Radeon 7500 now > > since it looks like the 3D support is possible now with XFree 4.2. I > > just subscribed to the list and skimmed the archives and noticed Mike > > mentioned "kernel 2.4.17-0.5 or later" would be needed and it should > > show up in his site and rawhide soon. Is it available anywhere so I can > > experiment with it this afternoon? > >=20 > > Thanks, > > Dave > > Probably not unless you have access to Red Hat's internal development > servers. ;-)=20 Unforutnately, no :-) > Until these kernels are available you will have to compile and install > the kernel DRM modules yourself for DRI support.=20 > > Regards, > Jim H I haven't compiled a kernel since the 2.2 first came out, but from what I gathered from the list archives, it's actually a kernel module that comes with XFree that needs to be compiled, not the entire kernel - is that correct? Do I need a kernel newer than the latest official Red Hat 7.2 kernel (2.4.9-13)? My computer still has a TNT2 card in it so I'm familiar with compiling NVidia's kernel module whenever I update the kernel. I'm willing to give it a try if someone can point me in the right direction since I have some time this afternoon and won't have much time after today. Do I need to compile a new kernel, and do I need to compile all of XFree86 or just find the DRM module, compile it, and copy it to the appropriate /lib/modules directory) Guess I'll start by downloading the XFree86 SRPM and take a look while waiting to see if anyone replies. Thanks, Dave
