Ati 3.7.0 driver installation
Hello
I am an uber noob to linux and I am suprized I got this far. Anyway, I am having trouble with a step in the ati installation. I have printed out the (23 page!) readme and I am at part 2.4, titled "Generating a customized kernel module". When the readme says "you must build the configured soruces of your kernel at /usr/src/linux -this is allowed to be a symlink", I am totally stumped at this point. Well, I tried running the make.sh under the directory /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod subdir and this is my make.log ATI module generator V 2.0 ========================== initializing... build_date =Tue Mar 9 13:45:00 EST 2004 uname -a =Linux vl121-019.vl121.gasou.edu 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl #1 Wed Feb 18 16:38:32 EST 2004 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux uname -s =Linux uname -m =i686 uname -r =2.4.22-1.2174.nptl uname -v =#1 Wed Feb 18 16:38:32 EST 2004 uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),1(bin),2(daemon),3(sys),4(adm),6(disk),10(wheel) . drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Mar 9 12:34 /usr/include . total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 9 12:34 ATI drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 9 12:44 linux . kernel includes at /usr/src/linux/include not found or incomplete file: /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h I'm guessing that the directory doesn't exist but I don't know what to do from here. I'm thinking I missed a step somewhere, but I really need help on what do to from here. :confused: |
What is kernel version do you have and how does your /usr/src directory look like?
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HOOAH!
After a day and a half straight trying to understand how to install it I finally did it. Accoding to the last post, my /usr/src directory was empty and I eventually went to fedora.redhat.com mirror sites and downloaded the kernel source rpm from the updates folder. Then I installed the rpm and continued the make.sh and so forth. If anyone else has this same problem I will be more than honored to post more in detail. Pretty much I need to stop doing this :cry: and do more of this :study: |
Okay Ive been working with this problem for a while. Reading posts on here has got me up to the point where it says
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you may need to adjust your symlinks Code:
ATI module generator V 2.0 |
Fixing the sym link means to make the /usr/src/linux symbolic link point to the sources for you current kernel. Distros should really not matter when it comes to getting things working.
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yes, I kinda got that, but im quite new, and I have read all over and can not find the way to do that. I havent been able to figure out where the symbolic link is and how to change it. Thanks :) (sorry to be a noob i would just be quite excited if i could actually have a linux system that works well)
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I know it should be simple. Im trying to read around I typed this:
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ln -s 2.4.21-199-athlon /usr/src/linux/include I know its something to do with ln -s, thats where i am lost though. |
It should be:
ln -s path-to-kernel-sources /usr/src/linux Not.... ln -s path-to-kernel-sources /usr/src/linux/include That should make it better. |
okay I admit im an idiot
I tried: Code:
ln -s 2.4.21-199-athlon /usr/src/linux then tried: Code:
ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-99 /usr/src/linux Code:
ln: `/usr/src/linux/linux-2.4.21-99': File exists Code:
n -s /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-99-include /usr/src/linux Code:
ATI module generator V 2.0 I was logged in as root the whole time. I feel like I am so close but so far away. |
I know this is simple im still not getting it though. What am I typing wrong?
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Okay figured that part out now I needed to configure my kernel source. And next I got an error I was told to goto /lib/modules/fglrx and type sh make_install.sh
And I did then i got the error: Code:
- creating symlink Quote:
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