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From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 3D Acceleration With Laptop - Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:46:57
Message-Id: 200707031139.39152.bss03@volumehost.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] 3D Acceleration With Laptop - Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP by Drew Tomlinson
1 On Tuesday 03 July 2007, Drew Tomlinson <drew@××××××××××××××.net> wrote
2 about '[gentoo-user] 3D Acceleration With Laptop - Radeon Xpress 1100
3 IGP':
4 > [W]hen loading the fglrx.ko
5 > module, I get an error about "...taints the kernel". Thus I suspect I
6 > have some option set in my kernel that conflicts with the fglrx module?
7
8 No that just means that the binary you are running (kernel + modules) is
9 not Free Software or, in this case, distributable at all.
10
11 See http://www.kroah.com/log/images/ols_2006_keynote_12.jpg , part of
12 http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/ols_2006_keynote.html which is full of high
13 level information about the kernel.
14
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