On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 23:02 -0800, Brandon Philips wrote: > Donnie, > > I thought that the x11-drm package was meant only for 2.4 series > Kernels. At least that is what I was lead to believe by this page: > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml > > Is this a documentation error? That was the case up until the 2004* versions. So rather than an error, it's out of date. It would be great if you'd file a bug to that effect at bugs.gentoo.org. Thanks, Donnie Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Diff written by Brandon Philips <brandon@ifup.org> --- en/ati-faq.xml 2004-10-25 13:10:48.000000000 -0700 +++ ati-faq.xml 2004-11-04 14:51:21.481336976 -0800 @@ -117,15 +117,27 @@ <title>Packages</title> <body> -<p> -The <c>xorg-x11</c> ebuild provides the X11 implementation. The kernel modules required by DRI are provided by the 2.6.x kernels, if you are still using the 2.4.x you should emerge the <c>x11-drm</c> ebuild, and <c>ati-drivers</c> provides the ATI closed source X drivers and kernel modules, for 2.4 kernels and 2.6 ones. -</p> +<ul> -<impo> -Your kernel must have agpgart support and not have the DRM modules compiled in. + <li>The <c>xorg-x11</c> ebuild provides the X11 implementation. </li> + + <li>For a 2.6.x kernel the DRI modules can be built with the kernel or be + provided by the <c>x11-drm</c> ebuild</li> + + <li>For a 2.4.x kernel series you must use the <c>x11-drm</c> ebuild</li> + + <li>The <c>ati-drivers</c> ebuild provides the ATI closed source X drivers + and kernel modules, for both the 2.4 and 2.6 series kernels</li> + +</ul> + +<impo> +Your kernel must have agpgart support. If you are running a 2.4.x +kernel or are planning on using the x11-drm ebuild you should not have the DRM +modules compiled in. </impo> -<pre caption="Installing drivers (for 2.4 systems)"> +<pre caption="Installing drivers"> <codenote>If you want just the Rage128 drivers and modules installed with x11</codenote> # <i>VIDEO_CARDS="rage128" emerge x11-drm</i> <codenote>To have just the Radeon support</codenote> @@ -139,14 +151,6 @@ # <i>emerge xorg-x11</i> </pre> -<pre caption="Installing just xorg (for 2.6 systems)"> -<codenote>If you want to install xorg-x11</codenote> -# <i>emerge xorg-x11</i> -<codenote>To install the ATI closed source drivers</codenote> -<codenote>(r200,r250 and r300 only)</codenote> -# <i>emerge ati-drivers</i> -</pre> - </body> </section> <section>
Created attachment 43315 [details, diff] Fixes the documentation error This is my first try at patching the Gentoo docs, and it is something I would like to do in the future. Please let me know of anything that needs to be fixed with this patch. Thanks, Brandon
Thanks for the patch! Fixed in CVS...
