On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:10:25 -0500 Dave Witbrodt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...] > I thought it was particularly hilarious that I had to recompile my > entire kernel, whereas my original decision to upgrade to Etch was > intended to allow me to preserve it. Sarge runs XFree86, but my new > video card required a new driver blob and kernel module. The Etch > upgrade, of course, installed XOrg and the module I had compiled for > Sarge was targetting XFree86. I thought I could just compile a new > kernel module, but then realized that I had just installed a new > version of 'gcc'. I got "gcc version 4.1.2 ..." when I ran 'gcc -v', > but I had compiled my kernel with gcc 3.3.5. > So, I had a fresh '.config' file to use, and just recompiled the > whole kernel along with the ATI module -- it only took about 15 > minutes. Later, I realized that there is also a 'gcc-3.3' package on > my system, and probably could have just compiled the ATI module alone > after all. (Sometimes ya gotta learn the hard way!) [...] I'm sure that was a valuable learning experience, but there is an easier way of installing the ATI drivers. See the packages fglrx-driver and fglrx-kernel-src, both in the non-free section. The latter can be auto-installed using module-assistant. -- Liam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
