Re: Problems with AGP Apple UniNorth support in 2.4.19-pre7-ben0 kernel

[Bill Fink <billfink@mindspring.com>]

On 09 May 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote:

> On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 06:38, Bill Fink wrote:
> >
> > I see that the changes I suggested have been incorporated into the
> > 2.4.19-pre8-ben0 kernel.  I was able to successfully build and boot
> > this kernel on my dual 500 MHz G4 (UP kernel), but the DRI was no
> > longer functional (as reported by glxinfo).
> >
> > I had this working with the 2.4.18-ben0 kernel, with modified versions
> > of drivers/char/drm/r128_{drv,state}.c that I got from a friend who I
> > believe got them from the XFree86 CVS at the time.  That r128_state.c
> > is now included in the 2.4.19-pre8-ben0 kernel but the new r128_drv.c
> > was not included.  The diff is pretty innocuous:
> >
> > 42c42
> > < #define DRIVER_DATE           "20010405"
> > ---
> > > #define DRIVER_DATE           "20010917"
> > 45,46c45,46
> > < #define DRIVER_MINOR          1
> > < #define DRIVER_PATCHLEVEL     6
> > ---
> > > #define DRIVER_MINOR          2
> > > #define DRIVER_PATCHLEVEL     0
> >
> > I figured what the heck, I didn't have anything to lose, so I went ahead
> > and made the change, and now the DRI is working once more!
>
> This is only valid if all of the r128 DRM is indeed 2.2 .

I may be missing something, but I assume this is true since the matching
r128_state.c has now been incorporated into the 2.4.19-pre8-ben0 kernel.
In any event, it didn't work before and it does now.  On a related note,
I can finally play tuxracer since I got the latest YDL 2.2 RPM.

						-Bill

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