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| author | brianp <brianp> | 2001-04-21 19:25:25 +0000 |
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| committer | brianp <brianp> | 2001-04-21 19:25:25 +0000 |
| commit | 5905ba301eb6405eda5a64c86fa0adb13f394cd0 (patch) | |
| tree | 25ffaf549fce18dc74d22547de1bb0e3c229855d /xc/programs/Xserver | |
| parent | d46c8c448e3e9790461a2aab7fcc77ce752cf54c (diff) | |
minor rephrasing of a few words about the kernel modules
Diffstat (limited to 'xc/programs/Xserver')
| -rw-r--r-- | xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/DRIcomp.sgml | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/DRIcomp.sgml b/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/DRIcomp.sgml index a4d699367..550a56873 100644 --- a/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/DRIcomp.sgml +++ b/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/DRIcomp.sgml @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ <author> <htmlurl url="http://www.valinux.com/" name="VA Linux Systems, Inc."> Professional Services - Graphics. - <date>15 March 2001 + <date>21 April 2001 <ident> $XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/DRIcomp.sgml,v 1.13 2001/04/05 19:29:42 dawes Exp $ @@ -175,7 +175,8 @@ <item>hit ESC to return to the top-level menu <item>Go to <em>Character devices</em> <item>Disable <em>Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 DRI support)</em> - since we'll use the DRI module from the XFree86/DRI tree. + since we'll use the DRI code from the XFree86/DRI tree and will + compile it there. <item>Go to <em>/dev/agpgart (AGP Support) (EXPERIMENTAL) (NEW)</em> <item>Hit SPACE twice to build AGP support into the kernel <item>Enable all chipsets' support for AGP @@ -516,7 +517,7 @@ The DRI kernel modules are in <tt>~/DRI-CVS/build/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/drm/kernel/</tt>. <p> - To load the appropriate DRI module in your running kernel you can + To load the appropriate DRM module in your running kernel you can either use ismod and restart your X server or copy the kernel module to <tt>/lib/modules/2.4.x/kernel/drivers/char/drm/</tt> then run depmod and restart your X server. @@ -524,6 +525,9 @@ Make sure you first unload any older DRI kernel modules that might be already loaded. <p> + Note that some DRM modules require that the <tt>agpgart</tt> module + be loaded first. + <p> <sect>Normal Installation and Configuration <p> |