[mythtv-users] Unichrome DRM Compile Problem

Tony Rein trein at one.net
Sat Apr 30 18:43:38 UTC 2005


On Saturday 30 April 2005 01:23 pm, Neale Swinnerton wrote:
> I've had this maybe last year or the year before, nothing to do with
> mythtv then. Check that you've got you processor type set properly in
> your kernel config. you can download a suitable .config from
> http://www.epiawiki.org/
>
> Also, I've read somewhere that CVS DRM doesn't support 2.6.11, and I get
> missing symbol errors when I modprobe via built against 2.6.11. I'm
> using 2.6.8.1 with good success, so I didn't investigate further.
>
> Torsten Schenkel wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > trying to get the epia ready for switching from PVR350 Tv-Out to the
> > unichrome VGA out.
> >
> > All the stuff from
> >
> > http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~glaweh/debian
> >
> > is in place -- and didn't even break anything so far :-) -- but the
> > drm module won't compile. Wether I try the source package from ~glaweh
> > or the cvs version, both show this error:
> >
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.11'
> > /usr/src/drm/linux-core/Makefile:285: *** CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG needs to be
> > enabled in the kernel.  Stop.
> >
> > I have to admit I didn't look thoroughly, but a quick search in the
> > kernel options and on google didn't through up anything whatsoever. I
> > can't even find that option. Is a special kernel needed? Epia patch or
> > similar? I did hope to get by with a generic debian kernel but will be
> > happy to recompile.
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Torsten
> >
> >
> >
> >
I had it work OK with kernel 2.6.11, although this was from the Gentoo 
sources, and I don't know what patches were put in.

To be more specific, it was gentoo-sources-2.6.11-r6

Tony


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