EXA Problem

Thomas Winischhofer thomas at winischhofer.net
Sun Jul 10 17:04:04 PDT 2005


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Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Sunday 10 July 2005 14:58, Anthony Romano wrote:
> 
>>"The driver
>>will load exa automatically if you ask for exa acceleration."
>>
>>And how is that done? I assume in the drivers section, but with what
>>command?
> 
> 
> Option "AccelMethod" "exa", iirc.  It will at any rate be documented in the 
> man page.
> 
> 
>>As a side note, how will I be able to build just the radeon driver w/o
>>rebuilding the entire server. Thanks!
> 
> 
> Well since you have cvs checked out and built, once exa support lands in the 
> radeon driver, you can do:
> 
> cd xc
> cvs up
> cd programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/radeon
> make
> 
> And then copy the radeon_drv.so from exports/lib/modules/drivers/ into 
> your /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers.

But if you build it while X is up, log out before overwriting
radeon_drv.so, otherwise X will crash hard.

- --
Thomas Winischhofer
Vienna/Austria
thomas AT winischhofer DOT net          http://www.winischhofer.net/

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