Problems with ati radeon and mandrake 10
 

Hi

I have some problems with my ati radeon 9000 and mandrake 10 , i cant install the ati propietary driver since i moved to this version; i have kde 4.3 and 2.6.x kernel and whenever i try to install it i got this errors:

rpm -Uh --force fglrx-4.3.0-3.14.6.i386.rpm
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*** Trying to install a precompiled kernel module.
- creating symlink
- recreating module dependency list
- trying a sample load of the kernel module
FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.3-7mdk/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fg
lrx.ko): Operation not permitted
failed.
*** Found kernel module build environment, generating kernel module now.
ATI module generator V 2.0
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initializing...
cleaning...
patching 'highmem.h'...
skipping patch for 'drmP.h', not needed
skipping patch for 'drm_os_linux.h', not needed
assuming new VMA API since we do have kernel 2.6.x...
doing Makefile based build for kernel 2.6.x and higher
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.3-7mdk/build SUBDIRS=/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x
modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.3-7mdk'
*** Warning: Overriding SUBDIRS on the command line can cause
*** inconsistencies
make[2]: `arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s' está actualizado.
CHK include/asm-i386/asm_offsets.h
CC [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.o
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c:2528: warning: initialization
from incompatible pointer type
LD [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/fglrx.o
Building modules, stage 2.
/usr/src/linux-2.6.3-7mdk/scripts/Makefile.modpost:17: *** Uh-oh, you have stale module entries. You messed with SUBDIRS,
/usr/src/linux-2.6.3-7mdk/scripts/Makefile.modpost:18: do not complain if someth ing goes wrong.
MODPOST
LD [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/fglrx.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.3-7mdk'
build succeeded with return value 0
duplicating results into driver repository...
done.
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- creating symlink
- recreating module dependency list
- trying a sample load of the kernel module
FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.3-7mdk/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fg lrx.ko): Operation not permitted
failed.
*** Warning ***
The QT based control panel application did not load in any version.
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ATI display drivers successfully installed
please run 'fglrxconfig' now
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I just follow the same procedure as always in the old version of mdk and nothing ( i was using 9.2 )

some one know how to install the driver correctly?

no clue... but this is cute--

When doing something like this it's always best to first install the kernel-sources from the mdk file, which corresponds to your kernel.

Then go to the /usr/src/linux directory and type make modules

which will go off and rebuild the kernel and modules as per the original release.

This will also verify that you are not encountering a problem with a non-compilable kernel-source tree.

Once done run the compilation.

However why do this?

The ATI drivers are part of the "official" releases on both the 10.0 and 10.0 editions.

They have everything set up including the support modules...

e.g.

ATI-kernel-2.x.x-xmdk.rpm

which must be installed along with the ATI driver RPM.

Avoid "forcing" and install unless you have no other recourse.