Guest moift Posted May 28, 2004 Report Share Posted May 28, 2004 (edited) One more thing then I promise I'll leave you nice people alone for a couple days. I'm running a laptop with an ATI Radeon card. I'm missing a lot of features and hardware acceleration, so I downloaded the drivers from ATI.. but, they will not install unless I compile a kernel specifically for my computer (Mandrake 10.0) I've done a lot of googling but I can't really find anything that's both helpful and near my level of understanding. If anyone could point me towards a good noob faq/walkthrough for kernel makin', that'd be great. Mod note:moved from software by phunni Edited May 28, 2004 by phunni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted May 28, 2004 Report Share Posted May 28, 2004 If you take a look at this then you will have a pretty good guide. Remember that if you use the mandrake sources and config, then you won't have to change much except that which is required for your drivers - and you'll have a working kernel. Don;t forget that, as long as you keep your old kernel installed, this is pretty safe. You can create the worst, most non-bootable (if that's psossible) kernel and still boot back into your original one This means that it's safe to experiment - and you can learn a huge amount if you do! Don't be put off by some of the language in the config - it's not as bad as it looks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted May 28, 2004 Report Share Posted May 28, 2004 I'm not sure why you need a kernel recompile for the drivers, but anyway - here is the best link I have Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest moift Posted May 28, 2004 Report Share Posted May 28, 2004 Thanks to both! I'm not sure why I need to do this either, but ATI says so, and I do everything ATI says. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest miketigerwoods Posted May 29, 2004 Report Share Posted May 29, 2004 I think you have it backwards...the ATI drivers might require you to compile the drivers based on your kernel. Do this by (as root): cd /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod ./make.sh cd .. ./make_install.sh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted May 29, 2004 Report Share Posted May 29, 2004 It may just be that you don't have the kernel-source installed. Try this as root in a console: urpmi kernel-source and then try to install the drivers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ac_dispatcher Posted May 29, 2004 Report Share Posted May 29, 2004 The big question is what ATI card do you have? I have a ATI Mobility M6 LY (32mb). The fglrx do not work with this old card. I have had a hard time gettings DRI to work until I compiled everything into the kernel (2.6 only). I went from 515FPS in a 2.4 kernel to a 630FPS with it built into the kernel. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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