Re: New proposed DRM interface design

[Keith Whitwell]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 11:23:35AM +0100, Keith Whitwell wrote:
>
> > > Actually regulat users do.  And they do by pulling an uptodate kernel or
> > > using a vendor kernel with backports.  This model would work for video drivers
> > > aswell.
> >
> > Sure, explain to me how I should upgrade my RH-9 system to work on my new i915?
>
>
> Download a new kernel.org kernel or petition the fedora legacy folks to
> include a drm update.  The last release RH-9 kernel has various security
> and data integrity issues anyway, so you'd be a fool to keep running it.

OK, I've found www.kernel.org, and clicked on the 'latest stable kernel' link. 
 I got a file called "patch-2.6.8.1.bz2".  I tried to install this but 
nothing happened.  My i915 still doesn't work.  What do I do now?

Keith
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