Installation of new FireGL drivers with radeon 9700

[Guest chrismcdirty]

I get the following error when i unpack the rpm:

 

[root@localhost cmccurdy]# rpm -i --force fglrx-glc22-4.2.0-2.4.3.i586.rpm

*** Trying to install a precompiled kernel module.

*** WARNING ***

Tailored kernel module for fglrx not present in your system.

You must go to /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod subdir

and execute './make.sh' to build a fully customed kernel module.

Afterwards go to /lib/modules/fglrx and run './make_install.sh'

in order to install the module into your kernel's module repository.

(see readme.txt for more details.)



As of now you can still run your XServer in 2D, but hardware acclerated

OpenGL will not work and 2D grafics will lack performance.



failed.

*** Error: no kernel module build environment - please consult readme.

===

ATI display drivers successfully installed

please run 'fglrxconfig' now

===

 

So i go to /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod and run ./make.sh, which yields the following error:

 

[root@localhost build_mod]# ./make.sh

ATI module generator V 2.0

==========================

Error:

kernel includes at /usr/src/linux/include do not match current kernel.

they are versioned as "2.4.18"

instead of "2.4.19-16mdk".

you might need to adjust your symlinks:

- /usr/include

- /usr/src/linux

 

When I logon to the computer, above the username, it says 2.4.19-16mdk, but the version.h it is polling says 2.4.18. It also results in '2.4.19-16mdk' when I run 'uname -r'.

Because of this problem, I have slow 2D acceleration and no 3D hardware acceleration. Does anybody know what's going on or what to do? Thank you for any help that you can give me.

[Guest marcelo]

It looks weird to me... My installation worked perfectly.

 

The makefile used /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h which informed the correct version: 2.4.19-16mdk.

 

But I also found /usr/include/linux/kernel/version.h, which shows version 2.4.18 (???)

 

Doing a quick RPM check, I found out that the first one came (as presumed) from kernel-source-2.4.19-16mdk BUT the second one came from kernel-headers-2.4.18-41mdk.

 

Therefore, you should be able to compile the driver if kernel-source-2.4.19-16mdk is installed.