Robin Humble wrote:
>
> Andy writes:
> >weeks. Right now I am building CVS RPMS regularly with preemptive and
> >lm_sensors patches.
>
> Whilst we're talking patches:
>
> I have a drm/agpgart patch that restores accelerated OpenGL to
> the XFree that comes with RedHat7.1. Somewhere along the line (>2.4.7?)
> the Linus kernel moved to too-new DRM version and (at least on my
> G400Max) XFree then turned all hardware acceleration off :-/
>
> This patch was distilled from 2.4.12-ac1 and gives you a config option
> of a XFree 4.0.* (RedHat 7.1) or XFree 4.1.* style DRM. The patch
> applies fine to 2.4.12-xfs and 2.4.13-pre*-xfs.
>
> http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/~rjh/drm/
>
> Works for me - YMMV.
>
> cheers,
> robin
I haven't tried the newer kernels, but I was under the impression that
instead of altering the DRM, a choice was going to be presented to use
either the 4.0.x XFree86 version or the 4.1.x XFree86 version, making
them a choice. Is this patch somehow different?
D. Stimits, stimits@xxxxxxxxxx
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