8.8.25 kernel-headers indeed suffice

["Georg Simon" <georg dot simon at onlinehome dot de>]

Am Wed, 19 Jan 2005 00:44:01 +0100 schrieb Flavio Stanchina
> * According to the release notes, this version doesn't require the
>    full kernel sources any more: the kernel-headers packages should
>    suffice. I didn't test if it's true. Feedback is welcome.

Samsung P35 /Centrino) with ATI Mobility Radeon 9700

It's the first time at all, that I built packages.

I started from an official snapshot of Sarge, dated 2004-11-06, kernel
2.4.27, installed without any kernel-sources.

apt-get install kernel-headers-2.4.27-1-386

vi /etc/apt/sources.list
deb     http://www.stanchina.net/~flavio/debian/ ./
deb-src http://www.stanchina.net/~flavio/debian/ ./

apt-get update
apt-get install fglrx-driver
apt-get install fglrx-kernel-src

Now I had to look for the packages and found them here :
dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/fglrx-driver_8.8.25-1_i386.deb
dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/fglrx-kernel-src_8.8.25-1_i386.deb

cd /usr/src/
tar xzvf fglrx-kernel-src.tar.gz

cd kernel-headers-2.4.27-1-386
make-kpkg append-to-version "-1-386" --added-modules fglrx-kernel-src
          modules_image

cd /usr/src
dpkg -i /usr/src/fglrx-kernel-2.4.27_8.8.25-1+2.4.27-2_i386.deb
modprobe fglrx

Now I altered /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 according to
http://xoomer.virgilio.it/flavio.stanchina/debian/fglrx-installer.html#configure
and included the resolution "1400x1050".

Then I switched with Alt+F7 to gdm and killed it pressing
Ctrl+Alt+Backspace.

gdm started again showing the new resolution and since then is working
without problems.

Thank you, Flavio, for your work. Georg