Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: ati-drivers compile issues

[Harry Holt]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Paul Hartman <
paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com <paul.hartman%2Bgentoo@×××××.com>> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
> wrote:
> > Harry Holt wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de
> >> <mailto:realnc@×××××.de>> wrote:
> >>
> >>        I don't know if this error exists upstream or not, but I may try
> >>        installing the 9.3 version from ATI just to find out (if I can
> >>        get through it).  I know the Debian version in "squeeze" works
> >>        but it's a newer version as far as I can tell (version numbers
> >>        are really inconsistent).
> >>
> >>        Anyway, has anyone else had this problem?  Is there a way around
> >>        it without turning on PCI_LEGACY in the kernel?
> >>
> >>
> >>    No.  You have to read the comments of that bug report and do as they
> >>    say.  The driver needs to use a kernel feature that is disabled in
> >>    your kernel.  Debian has it enabled.
> >>
> >>
> >> Sorry, but that's just not true.  If I compile a 2.6.27 kernel in debian
> >> with PCI_LEGACY=N, I can still install the "9.2" deb ATI Driver package.
> >> But the same kernel configured the same way in Gentoo causes the
> >> ati-drivers compile to fail.
> >
> > Then I guess you can open a new bug report about it.  Maybe that option
> is
> > not needed anymore.  On Gentoo, old stuff tends to accumulate over time
> and
> > no one really checks if it's still needed.  It's very possible that many
> > kernel options the ebuild checks for are not needed at all anymore.
>
> That's a good idea. Try to comment out the check in the ebuild and see
> what happens. I use the x11 radeon driver so I can't try it.
>
>
Well I'm still working on trying various things.  I decided to go ahead and
enable PCI_LEGACY to get xorg, etc. all in place and then try disabling to
see if things still worked.  Unfortunately I ran into this:

 * The current ati-drivers don't compile when having
 * paravirtualization active due to GPL symbol export
 * restrictions.
 * Please disable it:
 *      CONFIG_PARAVIRT=n
 * in /usr/src/linux/.config or
 *      Processor type and features -->
 *              [ ] Paravirtualization support (EXPERIMENTAL)
 * in 'menuconfig'

Which is crazy, because the whole point of this box is to run VMs.

Does the "fglrx" VIDEO_CARDS flag do anything other than pulling in a
dependency?  If so I could just disable that get everything in place.