Failure to get fglrx to build using Maverick kernel (kernel ppa)

Christopher Chan christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Tue Sep 14 05:31:40 UTC 2010


On Tuesday, September 14, 2010 12:54 PM, Deryl R. Doucette wrote:
> On 10-09-13 11:52 PM, Christopher Chan wrote:
>> You would have to build for each specific version of the kernel. If you
>> are building for the current running kernel and the headers are in
>> place, then it should have gone through. If you are building for another
>> kernel version, then you have to tell it where to find the headers, of
>> which a symlink in the appropriate version's module directory will do if
>> the headers are installed.
>>
>> fglrx now supports DKMS? (sorry...been a LONG while since I last used an
>> ATI card)
>>
> the fglrx monitors for new kernels and when you install a new one it
> looks for the kernel headers and uses them. same for if you installed
> every single kernel the normal repositories have available. its not
> doing that for the kernel/ppa kernels.
>
>
>

/me hands Deryl a flail. Go get them!




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