FC2 and ATI 3.9.0

[Nick David]

Jack Howarth wrote:

>   Has anyone managed to get the ATI 3.9.0 fglrx drivers to
>build against the new 2.6.6-1.406smp fedora kernel. I tried 
>the following...
>
>1) downloaded and installed fglrx-4.3.0-3.9.0.i386.rpm
>2) downloaded http://rambo.its.tudelft.nl/~ewald/patches/fglrx-3.9.0-fc2.patch
>and applied it to /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod
>3) downloaded the kernel-sourcecode-2.6.6-1.406 rpm and installed it
>4) created symlinks of /usr/src/linux and /usr/src/linux-2.6.6-1.406smp
>to /usr/src/linux-2.6.6-1.406.
>
>Now the confusing part. In the past with Linux 2.4 kernels, I have
>always just copied the appropriate config from /boot...
>config-2.6.6-1.406smp in this case... to /usr/src/linux
>and then did...
>    cd /usr/src/linux
>    make mrproper
>    cp config-2.6.6-1.406smp .config
>    make oldconfig
>    make dep
>
>It seems that 'make dep' is depreciated from Linux 2.6 and I
>need to do 'make prepare' instead? However the order in which
>I should do this is now unclear. If I replace 'make dep'
>with 'make prepare' in the above sequence it seems to not
>use the proper .config settings from 'make oldconfig'.
>Also I find that /lib/modules/2.6.6-1.406smp has an 
>actual build directory in it rather than the expected
>symlink back to ../../../usr/src/linux-2.6.6-1.406smp.
>What should I do about that? I tried moving it aside
>and replacing /lib/modules/2.6.6-1.406smp/build with
>a symlink to ../../../usr/src/linux-2.6.6-1.406smp.
>However I find that when I go into /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod
>and do 'sh ./make.sh' I get a failed build...
>
>ATI module generator V 2.0
>==========================
>initializing...
>cleaning...
>patching 'highmem.h'...
>skipping patch for 'drmP.h', not needed
>skipping patch for 'drm_os_linux.h', not needed
>assuming new VMA API since we do have kernel 2.6.x...
>doing Makefile based build for kernel 2.6.x and higher
>make -C /lib/modules/2.6.6-1.406smp/build SUBDIRS=/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x modules
>make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.6-1.406'
>  CC [M]  /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/agp3.o
>  CC [M]  /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/nvidia-agp.o
>  CC [M]  /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/agpgart_be.o
>/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/agpgart_be.c: In function `agp_generic_alloc_page':
>/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/agpgart_be.c:1405: error: structure has no member named `count'
>/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/agpgart_be.c: In function `ali_alloc_page':
>/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/agpgart_be.c:4416: error: structure has no member named `count'
>make[2]: *** [/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/agpgart_be.o] Error 1
>make[1]: *** [_module_/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x] Error 2
>make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.6-1.406'
>make: *** [kmod_build] Error 2
>build succeeded with return value 0
>ln: `./fglrx.ko': File exists
>duplicating results into driver repository...
>cp: cannot stat `fglrx.ko': No such file or directory
>done.
>==============================
>You must change your working directory to /lib/modules/fglrx
>and then call ./make_install.sh in order to install the built module.
>==============================
>
>Anyone else having better luck with this process?
>                 Jack
>
>
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>
Im using that setup right now the 2.6 Kernel config is as follows: make 
config --> make install/makebzimage --> make modules --> make 
modules_install --> make install again if you have a initrd.

As for fglrx you need to patch it with the amd_adv_spec fix patch look 
for it on google you will find it quick if you need some help IM me at 
nickadavid at msn.com or nickadavid on AIM