Radeon 7500 and DRI

[dansoccer1010]

Well, I want to figure out how to get DRI setup up for my Radeon 7500 LE 64 mb ddr card. Im using gentoo linux and once i can figure out how to do the dri correctly, im going to re-do it all. I looked at the DRI page and i just got confused, so hopefully, you guys can help me out here. I need a step by step process for doing this. Like do i need do enable/disable certain things when building the kernel, what do i need to install first, 2nd, etc, how to set up X with it and all that good stuff. It would be great if someone could post a step by step list for me. Also, in the kernel configuration, should i make it support the radeon or should i just leave that out because we are going to be installing radeon drivers anyways...thanks in advance...please help ASAP, windows is killing me....!

dansoccer1010

[bwkaz]

Have you looked at http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/DRIbeginner.html yet? They recommend getting a DRI that's already prebuilt for your distro.

Otherwise, make sure you have kernel-source installed and configured to match your kernel, so that the DRI kernel modules can build. Then grab the source from DRI's anonymous CVS server (at least, that was what I did) and compile a new version of X plus the kernel modules. The compilation guide (at dri.sourceforge.net, that is) tells how to install these files once they've been compiled.

[dansoccer1010]

is there a build for gentoo? and the link isnt working by the way

[bwkaz]

The link wasn't working because I was dumb and put two http's at the beginning of it. Oops.

Should be fixed now.

However, the link off that page appears to not work either. Does Gentoo provide any packages that might work? Something in portage for DRI, perhaps?