Re: Compiler version / kernel problems

[Thomas Dodd <ted cypress com>]

Greg Julius wrote:

> I don't know if you caught the early part of this thread, but I'm 
> having troubles starting with my X and have worked down to gcc.  X

Are these Mike's RPMS? The correct drivers should be in the XFree86 
source. install XFree86*.src.rpm, do rpmbuild -bp 
/usr/src/redhat/SPECS/XFree86.spec. Findthe kernel DRM drivers under 
/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/XFree*/xc.
(find /usr/src/BUILD/ -name Makefile.linux) run 'make -f Makefile.linux' 
from thet directory. Copy the correct *.o file
to /lib/modules/<kversion>/kernel/drivers/char/drm.

> has a problem because of my i845 chipset.  XFree86 has a something, 
> but it requires kernel 2.4.20.  2.4.20 doesn't compile on my RH 8.0 
> because the gcc is too high ** !! **.  It needs 2.95.3.  I tried 
> installing it and I get 2.95.3 from gcc -v, but the thing still dies 
> in the same place with the same error.  "script_asm.pl : Illegal 
> combination of registers in line 72 : MOVE CTEST7 & 0xef TO CTSEST7 .  
> I browsed around until I found the line in question (as noted in the 
> message), but there is nothing wrong with the statement as far as I 
> can see.

script_asm.pl is supposed to turn the *.scr files (in drivers/scsi/) 
into script.h and scriptu.h, which are moved to sim710_d.h and 
sim710_u.h. Looking at the Makefile I'm not sure why it has CPP is used.

   -Thomas