Changeset 3c989e81 for x/installing/xfree86/xfree86-inst.xml

Timestamp:

03/08/2003 05:51:34 AM (21 years ago)

Author:

Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@…>

Branches:

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Children:

841dc0b9

Parents:

a613700

Message:

Update XFree86 DRI modules and add fc-cache instruction for TrueType fonts

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@756 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• x/installing/xfree86/xfree86-inst.xml (modified) (1 diff)

x/installing/xfree86/xfree86-inst.xml

@@ -191 +191 @@
 
 </sect3>
+
+<sect3>
+<title>Updating Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI)</title>
+<para>If you have one of the supported DRI cards and have enabled DRI kernel modules as explained
+above, you now need to update the kernel modules to ensure they are compatible with the
+current version of XFree86.  Do do this, perform the following:</para>
+
+<para><screen><userinput>cd programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/drm/kernel &amp;&amp; 
+make -f Makefile.linux  &amp;&amp; 
+mkdir -p /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/char/drm/  &amp;&amp; 
+cp gamma.o radeon.o sis.o r128.o i810.o i830.o mga.o tdfx.o \
+    /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/char/drm/  &amp;&amp; 
+depmod -a</userinput></screen>
+</para>
+<warning><para>If you recompile or updrade your kernel, you will need to re-copy the driver modules
+to the kernel module library and rerun depmod.</para></warning>
+</sect3>
 </sect2>