[SOLVED] Can I re-build and use "unfinished" kernel module?

tercel · 08-15-2022, 02:30 PM

Hi,

I have a AMD Radeon HD 4350 Graphics card and I am trying to install its driver.

I installed the driver but at the end it gives this error :

Code:

Check if system has the tools required for installation.
Uninstalling any previously installed drivers.

Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/fglrx/8.97.100.7/source ->
                 /usr/src/fglrx-8.97.100.7

DKMS: add completed.

Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel.  Skipping...

Building module:
cleaning build area...
cd /var/lib/dkms/fglrx/8.97.100.7/build; sh make.sh --nohints --uname_r=5.10.0-8-amd64 --norootcheck...(bad exit status: 1)
[Error] Kernel Module : Failed to build fglrx-8.97.100.7 with DKMS
[Error] Kernel Module : Removing fglrx-8.97.100.7 from DKMS
[Reboot] Kernel Module : update-initramfs

What I checked that, there are folders in /usr/src/fglrx-8.97.100.7/ which is linked as source. My question is this, program failed to build kernel module. Can I continue and build that from where it remained? I asked since I noticed that it uses DKMS(Dynamic Kernel Module Support). Maybe I can manage to rebuild it myself.

For clearing up my question;
1. can I run sudo sh make.sh --nohints --uname_r=5.10.0-8-amd64 manually to build a module called fglrx-8.97.100.7
2. and then load it into kernel by update-iniframfs by sudo modprobe fglrx-8.97.100.7 ?

Thanks.

teckk · 08-16-2022, 07:37 AM

https://www.amd.com/en/support/graph...radeon-hd-4350
https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/fa...u-installation

General info
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AMDGPU
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/AMDGPU
https://github.com/archlinux/svntogi...trunk/PKGBUILD

You can certainly build a kernel module. You need the kernel headers for your kernel, the AMD source, all of the depends, and the correct compiler flags.

The amdgpu module and mesa is not in your distros repo? Using your package manager to install that from your repo would be the way to do it.

You need to give a lot more info.

tercel · 08-16-2022, 08:59 AM

Thanks ! I installed

firmware-amd-graphics
Binary firmware for AMD/ATI graphics chips

package for Debian and rebooted, it works flawlessly.