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Harry Holt wrote: |
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> I went to compile the proprietary drivers today from the ati-drivers |
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> emerge, but nothing up to and including 8.582 will compile do to error: |
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> * The die message: |
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> * ati-drivers-8.582 requires support for pci_find_slot. |
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> There is a bug about this here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/248118 but oddly |
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> enough it's status is "RESOLVED" even though it's not. |
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It is resolved. Enabling that kernel kernel feature resolves it. |
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> I don't know if |
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> this error exists upstream or not, but I may try installing the 9.3 |
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> version from ATI just to find out (if I can get through it). I know the |
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> Debian version in "squeeze" works but it's a newer version as far as I |
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> can tell (version numbers are really inconsistent). |
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> Anyway, has anyone else had this problem? Is there a way around it |
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> without turning on PCI_LEGACY in the kernel? |
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No. You have to read the comments of that bug report and do as they |
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say. The driver needs to use a kernel feature that is disabled in your |
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kernel. Debian has it enabled. |
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