On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Oisin C. Feeley wrote: > On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Scott Hadfield wrote: > > > Hi, > > I'm trying to use the i82845G video card with RedHat 7.3. However, > > there was no support for this video card until the most recent version > > of XFree86. I was wondering if it was possible to take just the driver > > for that card out of cvs and somehow patch the version of XFree86 that > > I'm using. The reason I don't want to just install the most recent > > version yet is because we've got about 25 computers all running this > > video card and I'm worried it will be a long and painful process to do a > > re-install for each of these machines. > > It should be possible to just build the driver for that card. If you can > get the source for the module and rebuild it against the glibc and > kernel-headers that you have installed on RH7.3 then it should be a case > of compiling it and moving the new module.o into > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers. If you do a Google search for the module > name then you _may_ get lucky and find out that someone else has built it. > AFAIK it would have to have been built against a compatible kernel and > glibc version though. > Sorry to reply to myself, but my post was incorrect according to this thread: http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/xpert/2002-August/019963.html You'll need to completely upgrade the XFree86 and not just the drivers according to this. Oisin Feeley _______________________________________________ Newbie@XFree86.Org *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
