DRI issues

[Net Llama!]

I'd say you might be pretty well screwed here.  Did you try grabbing the 
dri modules from CVS for that 2.5.44-ac2 kernel?  Also you might want to 
try the various DRI mailing lists, and finally, i found this stuff:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=dri-devel&w=2&r=1&s=Radeon+8500&q=b

On 10/25/2002 04:23 PM, Bob Raymond wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Trying to get DRI working for my Radeon 8500 (yes, I know the drivers 
> are beta, but my current X version is 4.2.99.2 - got to love the default 
> large, translucent, red cursor with a huge drop shadow).  But here's the 
> problem:  The only kernel I've found that really likes my new 
> motherboard is 2.5.44-ac2.  The DRI drivers apparently only like kernel 
> 2.4.19 when I try to compile new DRM stuff from dri.sourceforge.net, 
> ATI-Gatos, and XFree CVS.  And the only place where I see a problem that 
> might b solved is in my XFree log file:
> 
> (II) RADEON(0): [drm] created "radeon" driver at busid "PCI:1:0:0"
> (II) RADEON(0): [drm] added 8192 byte SAREA at 0xe4a2e000
> (II) RADEON(0): [drm] mapped SAREA 0xe4a2e000 to 0x40029000
> (II) RADEON(0): [drm] framebuffer handle = 0xd0000000
> (II) RADEON(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel
> (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIScreenInit failed because of a version 
> mismatch.
> [dri] radeon.o kernel module version is 1.1.1 but version 1.5.0 or newer 
> is needed.
> [dri] Disabling DRI.
> 
> So how might I compile kernel module 1.5.0 for my 2.5.44 kernel?
> 
> 
>             TIA
> 
> 
>             Bob Raymond
> 
> 
> P.S. to sum up what else I have tried- I was getting module version 
> errors also on various Gentoo revisions of the 2.4.19 kernels that I 
> could use on my old motherboard.
> 
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