ATI Drivers and 2.6.11

ekpyrotic · n00b Joined: 18 Feb 2005 Posts: 52

Hi,

After upgrading to the vanilla 2.6.11 kernel, I re-merged ati-drivers, and upon modprobing received this message:

FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.11/video/fglrx.ko): Operation not permitted

Dmesg shows the following:

[fglrx:firegl_stub_register] *ERROR* Unable to the open some already present DRM kernel module!

Any idea what DRM kernel module this could be referring to?

Thanks.

perb · Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 3:36 pm Post subject:

Try:
CONFIG_AGP=m
CONFIG_DRM=m

Wedge_ · Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 5:26 pm Post subject:

You can actually use CONFIG_DRM=n without problems, but compiling it as modules and not loading them should also work. The actual module that's causing the problem is probably the "radeon" module.
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ekpyrotic · n00b Joined: 18 Feb 2005 Posts: 52

Great, works perfectly now, thank you.

Isn't it a little odd that these modules magically enabled themselves? After all, I did copy over my .config file from the old 2.6.10 kernel...

llsardonicll · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Oct 2004 Posts: 110

I set CONFIG_DRM=m and it works great now (worked fine on 2.6.10.) Thanks for the tip.