[gobolinux-users] ati driver recipe, first attempt...

[Lucas C. Villa Real]

On 7/25/07, kenneth marken <k-marken at online.no> wrote:
> On Thursday 26 July 2007 01:03:00 kenneth marken wrote:
> > On Thursday 26 July 2007 00:56:15 kenneth marken wrote:
> > > after playing around with makerecipe and figuring out how the different
> > > stuff works, i tried to write a recipe for the ati driver.
> > >
> > > i managed to get it to download the installer (made using loki installer
> > > i suspect) and run it.
> > >
> > > but i noticed that Compile fails to grab the resulting files and put them
> > > under /Programs/ATI as expected. instead the files are as allways put
> > > under /usr/share/ati. this except for the driver files.
> > >
> > > also, unless im mistaken, the driver needs the linux compile environment.
> > > the only way i have found to satisfy this is by having the whole kernel
> > > source available in /Files/Compile/Sources. imo thats overkill.
> >
> > err, disregard that part. i have made it a habbit of purging
> > the /Files/Compile/Sources ever so often as over time it starts to eat
> > drive space. but i see now that the linux recipe bundles up the compile
> > environment into a unmanaged bundle and copies them into place in said dir
> > when symlinkprogram is run.
> >
>
> or maybe not. when compiling the kernel part of the driver using the unmanaged
> files, it seems that the install cant find a file called Kbuild.include that
> should reside in the scripts subdir of the compile environment. the subdir is
> compleatly missing...

Does it help if you run 'make prepare' inside
/Files/Compile/Sources/linux-<version> before trying to recompile your
ATI driver?

-- 
Lucas
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