Re: ATI 3d graphics

On 2006-03-08, jollyroger <jroger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
(Thanks Stan)

You need to install kernel sources that match
the running/target kernel.

How can I do ^^that^^ in noobs' words?

JR
walking the line of desperation

.... trying to be helpful, but can't do much due to lack of
information from OP... I thought that's what "that" might
have meant, but with so many threads in a few Linux-related
newsgroups, I wasn't sure.

It depends on your distribution, which I don't happen to
know.

If it's an RPM-based distribution, then find the RPM from
your distribution's producer and install it. It will be
called kernel-source-2.*.rpm, with an architecture field
suitable for your machine (i586 for Mandriva on X86).

It it's a Debian-based distribution, find the appropriate
..deb. I don't know their naming conventions.

If you installed the kernel from kernel.org, that's where
you would get the source. I don't know their naming
conventions, either.

After you have the source installed, do 'cd /usr/src/linux'
(without the quotation marks) followed by 'pwd'. The path
should include the version number/name of the target kernel.

HTH

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Robert Riches
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