From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Beolach Subject: Re: Compiled new kernel, Gnome not working Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 21:39:45 -0700 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3FE7C711.6050408@comcast.net> References: <3FE30ACA.6080901@vip.cybercity.dk> <3FE419E6.3090203@comcast.net> <3FE6E4DD.4030402@vip.cybercity.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <3FE6E4DD.4030402@vip.cybercity.dk> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Flemming Greve Skovengaard Cc: linux-newbie Flemming Greve Skovengaard wrote: > No, I don't have frame buffer support and I have a ATI Radeon 8500 graphics > card. The only solution that comes to mind, and don't hade me if it is > stupid, > is that I have to re-compile X, Gnome or both with the new kernel. > I would guess that you should not have to re-compile X or Gnome. If you have an ATI card, I don't have any personal experience with potential problems, but here's something else (you might already have done) I thought might be a cause of your current problem. Check if your kernel has the ATI chipset support compiled in with the command zgrep CONFIG_AGP_ATI /proc/config.gz or else (if /proc/config.gz doesn't exist) grep CONFIG_AGP_ATI .config in your 2.6.0 source directory. Also check for CONFIG_DRM & CONFIG_DRM_RADEON in the same way. All of these options are required for X to work with hardware acceleration of an ATI Radeon card. Wish you luck, Conway S. Smith OT P.S. The /proc/config.gz file is a new feature of the 2.6 kernels that I think is a great idea. It shows the kernel config file that was used to compile the currently running kernel. But it is optional, and may not exist on all systems. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs