[Savage40] Wanted: savage dri HOWTO

[Hassan Aurag]

On my fedora core 2 machine, I just followed Alex's email to this list. I
only had to create host.def following xorg cvs page guide. I am including
his email here:

In order to build you'll need to check out xorg cvs:
http://www.freedesktop.org/XOrg/CvsPage
then add:
#define BuildDevelDRIDrivers YES
to your xc/config/cf/host.def
then build the tree (change to xc and run 'make World'). Install the newly
built tree (change to xc and run 'make install' as root). finally build and
install the savage drm change to xc/extras/drm/linux and run 'make', then
copy the resulting savage.o (2.4 kernel) or savage.ko (2.6 kernel) to the
apporiate place in your kernel modules tree (usually
/lib/modules/$KERNEL_VERSION/kernel/drivers/char/drm/) and run 'depmod -a'.
you'll need a copy of your current kernel source installed.  on 2.4 you'll
also have to run 'make dep' on your kernel tree or the drm won't build.

-----Original Message-----
From: savage40-bounces at probo.com [mailto:savage40-bounces at probo.com] On
Behalf Of Mark van Rossum
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 6:34 AM
To: savage40 at probo.com
Subject: [Savage40] Wanted: savage dri HOWTO



Thanks all people for creating the DRI drivers for the savage!

However, I find installing is quite tricky and seems to involve many 
components. I only got it to work once.
Good documentation on how to install them seems missing/dated/scattered.
Where can I find it? Perhaps the probo.com site can combine a few 
pointers.

It would also be good to know if old and new setups can co-exist next to 
each other.

Finally, currently cards with little memory can only start DRI in low 
resolution. So AFAIK you can either start in low res. with DRI, or in high 
res. without DRI. It would be great if the DRI could be enabled depending 
on resolution/depth (changeable with xrandr), without the need to restart X.

-- 
Mark

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