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From: Michel Merinoff <mike_merinov@××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: another "little" problem appeared (ATI driver/direct rendering/kernel)
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 07:52:35
Message-Id: 455AC708.30700@yahoo.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: another "little" problem appeared (ATI driver/direct rendering/kernel) by "Hemmann
1 Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
2 > On Tuesday 14 November 2006 20:48, Florian D. wrote:
3 >
4 >> Duncan wrote:
5 >>
6 >>> Michel Merinoff <mike_merinov@××××××××.uk> posted
7 >>> 4559E1E8.40604@××××××××.uk, excerpted below, on Tue, 14 Nov 2006
8 >>> 18:34:00
9 >>>
10 >>> +0300:
11 >>>
12 >>>> Well, I had been using the kernel 2.6.17-r8 and everything seemed ok
13 >>>> with the subj. But then I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.18-r1, and there's
14 >>>>
15 >>> 2.6.18, given your report. IDR where it was before, but the new option
16 >>> is CONFIG_IOMMU, located at Processor type and features > IOMMU support.
17 >>> As
18 >>>
19 >> hmm.. I have vanilla-2.6.18.2 and there is no `IOMMU support' option. It is
20 >> enabled by default. I guess on 2.6.18-r1 its the same.
21 >>
22 >
23 > yes there is an option. Look again.
24 >
25 Yes, there was such trick. Thanks for everyone, especially Duncan for
26 not saying the word 'slaveryware'. :-)
27
28 But it still doesn't work. I'll try to have more work around little
29 later. I checked off IOMMU support manually, but the AMD64 (but it was
30 set to yes) option didn't appear in the menu. I recompiled the kernel
31 with no effect.
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