[CentOS] ATI mobility Radeon HD 5470

[Przemysław Pawełczyk]

On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 11:20:42 +0800
sync <jiannma at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for your advice .
> 
>  I refered to the ATI driver installation doc and found the following
> message :
> 
> Note: If a Linux 2.6.11 or newer kernel was built with
> CONFIG_AGP enabled, the kernel AGP frontend is required to load
> the fglrx kernel module. To identify whether your kernel was built
> with CONFIG_AGP enabled, look for CONFIG_AGP=y in the
> kernel config file, or if the 'agpgart' module is loaded.
> 
> And I found  that module is not in CentOS 5.5 x8_64 .
> 
> So could I compile the kernel that enable that module ?
> 
> Isn't  it right ?  Thanks ...

I found that excerpt too. Anyway the compilation was successful and the
driver stable. Try it yourself, you are not going to screw anything.
In the need you can alway get back to former radeon driver.

BTW Compiling kernel is rather fun not a scary process.

Regards

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Przemysław Pawełczyk (P2O2) [pron. Pshemislav Paveltchick]
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