SDB:Support for Graphics Cards with Kyro Chipsets

From openSUSE

Version: 7.3

Situation

You want to install the drivers for Kyro graphics cards.

Procedure

The following lines describe the compilation of the source driver. You can find the driver for SuSE Linux 8.0 at powervr's homepage. As for the rest of versions, you have to compile the driver yourself.

<b>The drivers are powervr's own development. For this reason, problems with these drivers are not covered by our free-of-charge installation support. However, you are welcome to contact our Advanced Supprot Hotline for problems or queries concerning this subject.</b>

Packages Download

The drivers for Kyro graphics cards can be downloaded at:

http://www.powervr.com/Downloads.asp

When doing this, select the file source RPM or source TGZ.

A list of the available mirror servers for download purposes can be found at:

http://www.pvrdev.com/driver/index.htm

Driver Source Installation

*.tgz

The driver sources can be found at:

http://www.pvrdev.com/driver/index.htm

Make sure that the packages autoconf, automake, and kernel-source are installed on your system in order to compile this source.

Unpack the package with the following command as described in the article SDB:Installing Applications under SuSE Linux 8.0

tar -xvfz package_name

Then change as root user to the newly-created directory and execute the command

make install

Finally, start SaX2 to configure X.

*.src.rpm

To compile the source rpm, proceed as follows:

1. rpm --rebuild powervr*.src.rpm
2. rpm -Uvh /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i386/powervr*.rpm

Compilation of the powerv*.src.rpm driver from SUSE LINUX 9.0 on

Starting with SUSE LINUX 9.0, rpm version 4 is used. As rpm commands have changed in this new version, the following command must be used to compile the driver:

rpmbuild --rebuild powervr*.src.rpm

In case of problems during the compilation, execute the following commands at /usr/src/linux/:

make cloneconfig
make dep

X Configuration

Start SaX2 to configure X. For further information on the driver compilation, refer to the corresponding README at:

http://www.powervr.com/Drivers/Linux/README.txt

Starting SaX2

Start SaX2 with the following options:

sax2 -b /var/opt/sax/profile/kyro -m 0=powervr