On or about Wednesday 20 May 2009 at approximately 08:25:37 am Damjan
Georgievski composed:
> Does anyone know why the i686 version of libdrm is stuck at version
> 2.4.9 (the x86_64 is up-to-date at 2.4.11)?
> http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?q=libdrm
>
> I don't mind it much, since I've compiled my own package, but each
> time I try to -Syu pacman wants to downgrade to 2.4.9 and it's a bit
> annoying :)
Damjan,
I need to add this to the wiki, but for the radeonhd driver, I just got
done
with the process. Here is my cliff's note version:
Dependencies for building:
pacman -Sy libdrm lib32-libdrm
Get and build drm, copy new libs to proper location:
git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/drm drm
cd drm/linux-core
git checkout -b r6xx-r7xx-support origin/r6xx-r7xx-support
make radeon.o drm.o
(*as root*)
sudo cp
radeon.ko /lib/modules/2.6.29-ARCH/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon.ko
sudo cp drm.ko /lib/modules/2.6.29-ARCH/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/drm.ko
Get build and install the latest radeonhd driver:
git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-radeonhd
radeonhd/
cd radeonhd/
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
make
(*as root*)
make install
(REBOOT)
**The radeon driver is notorius for leaving bits of itself in memory even
after rmmod and modprobe..., so just reboot.
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