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

[kenneth marken]

On Tuesday 31 July 2007 08:08:14 Lucas C. Villa Real wrote:
> 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?

i tried something interesting the other day, newversioned the kernel to 
2.6.21.6. seems to have worked out fine so far. and now i suspect that even 
the scripts stuff got picked up and put into unmanaged files by the recipe. 
all in all it may be that i ran out of space earlier, for some reason (im 
working with a slightly limited storage space because of some partitions i 
dont want to delete until i fully know what to keep and what of throw away on 
them).

so right now, what worries me the most is that i cant seem to "contain" the 
driver install process so that i can put the driver files under /programs/ati 
rather then having them walk all over the file system.

i have tried to extract the content of the install and see if i can then do 
the install process manually, but so far no dice. i cant figure out the 
correct commands :(

while the loki installer may have been great when it comes to recreating the 
install process under windows, im starting to get irked by it...