ATI drivers

[Jason Salaz]

Greetings Dylan.  I believe you will need to switch to root access to
run the make_install.sh script, because your regular user account won't
have the appropriate access, methinks.

-Jason

On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 17:59, Dylan Parry wrote:
> On Sat,  5 Jun 2004 19:48:47 -0400 (EDT), Jack Howarth  
> <howarth at bromo.msbb.uc.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Dylan,
> >    You need to be in /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod
> > and use...
> >
> >  patch -p0 < /path/to/fglrx-getpage.patch
> 
> Okay, when doing that I get:
> 
> -----
> [dylan at localhost build_mod]$ sudo patch -p0 <  
> /home/dylan/flgrx-getpage.patch
> patching file agpgart_be.c
> patching file firegl_public.c
> patch unexpectedly ends in middle of line
> Hunk #1 succeeded at 2019 with fuzz 1.
> -----
> 
> What does this mean? This in turn allows me to run the make.sh script  
> okay, but when it comes to the make_install.sh I get the following error:
> 
> -----
> [root at localhost fglrx]# sh make_install.sh
> - creating symlink
> - recreating module dependency list
> - trying a sample load of the kernel module
> FATAL: Error inserting fglrx  
> (/lib/modules/2.6.6-1.422/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.ko): Operation not  
> permitted
> failed.
> -----
> 
> Forgive me if I am being a total idiot, but I really don't know what to do  
> next :s
> 
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> Dylan Parry
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