[Savage40] kernel module version mismatch?

[Alex Deucher]

--- Luis <luis at riseup.net> wrote:

> Hi all,
> I can't get DRI to work on my machine and I really don't know why.
> 
> I have an integrated VIA ProSavage chip, on a ASUS P4V533-MX
> motherboard, and right now I'm running Slackware 10.0 here, using
> kernel
> 2.4.29. This weekend I decided to upgrade X to 6.8.1, using the
> Slackware-current packages, and after some trouble I got X to work.
> 
> Trying to get DRI enabled I followed the instructions from the DRI
> Building page, downloading the CVS trees for X.org, Mesa and DRM, and
> compiling and installing all three of them without much trouble. But
> now, whenever I start X I get this annoying error, which I have no
> idea
> how to solve:
> 
> (EE) SAVAGE(0): [dri] SAVAGEDRIScreenInit failed because of a version
> mismatch.
> [dri] savage.o kernel module version is 1.0.0 but version 2.0.x is
> needed.
> [dri] Disabling DRI.
> (EE) SAVAGE(0): DRI isn't enabled
> (EE) SAVAGE(0): Direct rendering disabled
> 
> What I don't understand is, how can the savage.o kernel module be an
> old
> version (v1.0.0) if I just compiled DRM and copied the DRM modules
> into
> the kernel tree? I hope I'm not missing something obvious here. Can
> anyone point me to a possible solution to this problem?
> 
> I'm absolutely sure I didn't miss any step of the Building
> instructions
> and I also tried to find a solution on DriTroubleshooting before
> deciding to write to this list.
> 
> The X.org log is attached, along with the output of 'dmesg' and
> 'lspci
> -vv'. Let me know if there's any other information I can provide.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> -- 
> Luis
> 
>

the current savage drm is only supported on 2.6 kernels.  You need to
use a 2.6 kernel.  The 2.4 drm only work with the savage ddx/dri prior
to December 31st.  The old version is deprecated and isn't supported. 
You need to use a 2.6 kernel.

Alex



		
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