Richard Fish wrote:
I think we have a failure to communicate here....
Actually no...
The via_drv I am talking about is an _x.org_ driver, not a kernel
driver. It has nothing to do with the kernel sources or rebuilding
the kernel. It should exist at /usr/lib/modules/drivers/via_drv.o
(along with all other X11 drivers).
I know! My xorg just doesn't want to compile that file! So what I tried
was to enable the VIA drivers in the kernel. It then compiled both
drm.ko and via.ko and also via_drv.o, but the via_drv.o never left the
/usr/src directory.
I don't understand why you don't have this file. The only case this
should be missing is if you have USE=minimal. Could you please post
the output of "emerge -pv xorg-x11"?
I surely didn't use the minimal flag. The first time I had enabled
insecure-drivers and disabled font-server. Then after reading your first
email, I tried to compile it with the same USE flags as yours.
Once you have this file, then you will need to update your xorg.conf
Device section and change the Driver option to "via".
Already tried that, but of course, no via_drv.o!
The kernel has a DRM driver for via, that (if compiled as a module)
will be installed under /lib/modules as "via.ko". To load that, you
will modify /etc/autoload.d/kernel-2.6 to add the line "via".
However, again, this is only for DRI/DRM support, and will almost
certainly require using the X11 via driver, so let's worry about that
later!
-Richard
Well, the kernel modules have been loaded already...
I noticed one thing, the agpgart option in the kernel is always
disabled... !x86_64 says the Help for that option. As it is, I have a
PCI card...
I just can't understand why the file isn't compiled by xorg. Not to
mention, FC4 uses "vesa" and works perfectly. I wonder what's going on
with Gentoo :(
Thanks for your help so far,
Mrugesh
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