problems installing updated video card drivers

luke9511 · 02-06-2007, 06:50 PM

hello, i have a dell latitude 110L laptop and have freespire on it and i also have cedega and am wanting to play guildwars on here, the video card is a intel 915 onboard chip and im needing to install updated video card drivers so that guildwars will run good enough to play, on windows it ran fine but under linux and cedega it runs really bad and have been told its a video card issue, so im trying to install it but when i do i get this:

Code:

Compiling new agpgart module...

ERROR: AGPGART module did not compile

Compiling DRM module...

ERROR: Kernel modules did not compile

The DRI drivers can not be installed without the latest kernel modules.
Installation will be aborted. See the dri.log file for information on
what went wrong.

now i got the kernal thing fixed but im still getting this problem, now heres what it says in the dri.log file:

Code:

make -C /lib/modules/2.6.14-gratis/build SUBDIRS=/home/trey/dripkg/agpgart-2.0 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.14'
Makefile:484: .config: No such file or directory

  WARNING: Symbol version dump /usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.14/Module.symvers
           is missing; modules will have no dependencies and modversions.

  Building modules, stage 2.
/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.14/scripts/Makefile.modpost:38: .config: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `.config'.  Stop.
make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.14'
make: *** [default] Error 2
Makefile.linux:151: *** Cannot find a kernel config file.  Stop.

i hope someone can help me, as im going crazy over not being able to fix this, so if anyone has any help/advice please let me know and thanks in advance for any help/advice.

TB0ne · 02-07-2007, 07:36 AM

Looks to me like you don't have your kernel source code installed.

luke9511 · 02-08-2007, 08:05 AM

how do i do that in freespire?

TB0ne · 02-12-2007, 01:39 PM

Not sure where to get Freespire sources or RPM's..I've never played with that distro. However, the message you're getting is because of missing kernel-source packages.

Wherever you get Freespire RPM's (or however you update/patch Freespire), go to that source. The package is normally called something like kernel-source-********.rpm. Do a "uname -a" on your system, to see what running kernel you have now. Grab the appropriate RPM file, and install it.

luke9511 · 02-12-2007, 11:06 PM

well i got all the kernel stuff and im still getting that, i dont know why, but im also going to reinstall ubuntu as im not liking freespire at all