Re: Link /lib/modules/2.6.12-1-686-smp/build does not exist (or is not a link)

["Matthew Tippett" <mtippett at ati dot com>]

Regarding modelines, a safe default that most people do not consider is to remove all sync ranges and modelines and let the detection magic happen - it should work without issues most of the time.

Regards...  Matthew

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-----Original Message-----
From: Mathieu Malaterre <mmalater at nycap dot rr dot com>
To: Manuel Bilderbeek <manuel at msxnet dot org>
CC: flavio-fglrx at stanchina dot net <flavio-fglrx at stanchina dot net>
Sent: Sat Sep 24 16:58:13 2005
Subject: Re: [fglrx] Link /lib/modules/2.6.12-1-686-smp/build does not exist (or is not a link)

Manuel Bilderbeek wrote:
> Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>
> > Hello there,
> >
> >     I have just updated my debian system today, and it made the switch to
> > xorg. Unfortunately I am not able to compile fglrx anymore due to
> > missing kernel-headers for 2.6.12. I am doing:
>
>
> They're not missing:
> linux-headers-2.6.12-1 - Common architecture-specific header files for 
> Linux kernel 2.6.12
>
> But I used the kernel sources (linux-source) and got the kernel module 
> working perfectly with the Debian stock 2.6.12 kernel and the 
> instructions on Flavio's site. :)
>
> So, the packages with kernel headers and sources got renamed.
> Might be nice to add that to Flavio's site also.

Manuel, thanks a bunch ! You saved me a lot of time.
So yes indeed the name changed (I still don't know how you figured out 
that).

Anyway after compilation the screen was still black with the message: 
"Cannot Display This Video Mode". This has nothing to do with fglrx, but 
since I found the solution I thought it might help others:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=319944;msg=10

Indeed I had wrong freqencies, copying the one from /var/log/Xorg.0.log 
into xorg.conf did the trick.

Mathieu