Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: ati-drivers compile issues
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:26:33
Message-Id: gro6gs$tn4$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: ati-drivers compile issues by Harry Holt
1 Harry Holt wrote:
2 > Well I'm still working on trying various things. I decided to go ahead
3 > and enable PCI_LEGACY to get xorg, etc. all in place and then try
4 > disabling to see if things still worked. Unfortunately I ran into this:
5 >
6 > * The current ati-drivers don't compile when having
7 > * paravirtualization active due to GPL symbol export
8 > * restrictions.
9 > * Please disable it:
10 > * CONFIG_PARAVIRT=n
11 > * in /usr/src/linux/.config or
12 > * Processor type and features -->
13 > * [ ] Paravirtualization support (EXPERIMENTAL)
14 > * in 'menuconfig'
15 >
16 > Which is crazy, because the whole point of this box is to run VMs.
17
18 Try the same here. Disable it on your local overlay copy of the ebuild
19 :P It could be just a legacy workaround that is fixed in recent Catalyst.

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: ati-drivers compile issues Harry Holt <harryholt@×××××.com>