Re: tainted kernel debian 2.6.15

["Michel Dänzer" <daenzer at debian dot org>]

On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 17:48 +0100, Jonathan Kaye wrote:
> I have a ATI Radeon 9550 running on a Debian Etch box. Today aptitude
> decided it was time to upgrade the kernel from 2.6.12 to 2.6.15 . Ok so
> I have to build and install the new fglrx module for this kernel. No
> problem, it's something I've done 50 times but now ...aaaaargggghhhh.
> I'm running Xorg 6.8.2 so I used Flavio's 8.19.10-1_i386 packages for
> the driver and kernel src. I manually patched the firegl_public.c file
> by replacing #if 0 with #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= 0x02060f because my
> first attempt threw up a lot of errors. I then used module-assistant to
> prepare build and install the module and modprobed it. It complained
> about "tainted" kernels. The driver worked and I got 3D acceleration
> going but every time I ran fglrxinfo or tried to stop and restart the X
> server the system hung and I had to reboot.

8.22.5 is the first fglrx release to officially support the 2.6.15
kernel. You're probably missing patches required for 2.6.15.


> fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies,
> Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel.

'taints kernel' is the standard message from the kernel when you load a
kernel module with a closed-source licence.


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