from the guide: "Some chipsets require you to rebuild xorg-x11 with USE="insecure-drivers". This applies to mach64, unichrome and savage chipsets on xorg-x11-6.8.2, and to mach64 and unichrome on xorg-x11-6.8.99.x. Savage users should not try xorg-x11-6.8.99.x as support for the savage there is broken. " So at least this part needs updating. There might be something else too.
(In reply to comment #0) > So at least this part needs updating. There might be something else too. ...can you please be more specific? What else might need updating, and what should this part say? Just remove the version numbers, or what?
(In reply to comment #1) > > ...can you please be more specific? What else might need updating, and what > should this part say? Just remove the version numbers, or what? > My best guess would be that the drivers in question have since been fixed in modular X and the whole chapter is obsolete but I would wait until someone from the x11 team like Donnie comments on this. Also is it true that the x11 team still recommends external kernel modules? Also the example about kernel source code building should be updated for kernel 2.6. It's currently for 2.4 and anyone wanting 3D should be on 2.6 any way.
The USE=insecure-drivers part is no longer needed. It used to build those 3D drivers (now part of mesa and controlled by the standard VIDEO_CARDS setting). I no longer recommend using x11-drm; the kernel's generally more up to date now.
(In reply to comment #3) > The USE=insecure-drivers part is no longer needed. It used to build those 3D > drivers (now part of mesa and controlled by the standard VIDEO_CARDS setting). > I no longer recommend using x11-drm; the kernel's generally more up to date > now. So I need to: 1) redo the kernel examples & other paragraphs using 2.6 2) remove all references to the x11-drm package (except to say that in-kernel is more up to date); the in-kernel DRM is the way to go 3) remove insecure drivers; just go with VIDEO_CARDS 4) ??? 5) profit
Sounds reasonable.
Created attachment 110231 [details, diff] dri-howto.xml.patch Okay, here's my substantially, amazingly overhauled reworked patch for the guide. Donnie, can you please review the existing first chapter (in addition to the patch), especially the part about what X11-DRM is & related paragraphs? I took out the X11-DRM install directions, but I need you to double-check what should now be in there. Since I don't have the hardware, I had to take some SWAGs as to what the instructions should now be, especially in the troubleshooting, removing CVS DRI, etc. Hope I got it right. :)
Thanks for reporting and to dberkholz for reviewing. Fixed in CVS.
