EXA Problem

Anthony Romano dominatus at gmail.com
Sun Jul 10 19:03:54 PDT 2005


Thanks everyone!

On 7/10/05, Thomas Winischhofer <thomas at winischhofer.net> wrote:
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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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