On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Michael Fratoni wrote: >Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 00:44:26 -0400 >From: Michael Fratoni <mfratoni@tuxfan.homeip.net> >To: xfree86-list@redhat.com >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >List-Id: Red Hat XFree86 list <xfree86-list.redhat.com> >Subject: Re: Kernel DRM Woes > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Monday 03 June 2002 12:33 am, Gregory S. Hayes wrote: > >> Say what? So i586 users will not get drm out of the box, but i686 users >> will? I had direct rendering working with earlier releases of Redhat on >> my i586 amd k62 450. >> >> What are i586 UP users supposed to do to get DRM? > >It's worse than that. The i386 kernel claims to provide drm support. > >$ rpm -qp --provides /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/kernel-2.4.18-3.i386.rpm >module-info >kernel = 2.4.18 >kernel-drm = 4.1.0 >kernel-drm = 4.2.0 >kernel = 2.4.18-3 Yep. I tried _hard_ to get a UP i586 kernel, and wanted DRM to work out of the box on all machines Pentium/K5/K6/CyrixM1 and higher, because I myself have a machine that requires it, and I knew countless others would too. I guess I failed in my quest. I guess there's power in numbers though.. Pound bugzilla with DRM requests I guess... -- Mike A. Harris Shipping/mailing address: OS Systems Engineer 190 Pittsburgh Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, XFree86 maintainer Ontario, Canada, P6C 5B3 Red Hat Inc. http://www.redhat.com ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
