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Radeon fglrx Driver lock_aquire "Bug"

Tags: bug | driver | fglrx | kernel | linux | radeon

Tux the penguin, sittingCurrently there's an incompatibility in the default configuration of many Linux kernels with AMD's closed source Radeon driver. 

Kernel symbol lock_aquire is marked "GPL Only", so that when you go to compile the Radeon fglrx driver from AMD you'll get the error message GPL-incompatible module fglrx.ko uses GPL-only symbol 'lock_acquire'.  You can work around this problem by using a kernel (or recompiling yours) that has the options for "Lock debugging" under kernel hacking turned off.

This was tested on the latest 2.6.25 series kernel, 2.6.25.20.

 
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Fedora Core 9
1 Wednesday, 12 November 2008 17:31
Editor
Note that it still doesn't get Fedora Core 9 working. Apparently there's an additional incompatibility with fglrx and the version of Xorg they're shipping.

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