[Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#705419: 13.1-2 doesn't work with 3.8 kernel

[Daniel Baumann]

Package: fglrx-driver
Version: 1:13.1-2
Severity: serious
Tag: experimental

fglrx-source does not work with the 3.8.5 kernel in experimental, for
two reasons:


1. it doesn't find the kernel headers to be suitable, bailing out with a
m-a message:

---snip---
Bad luck, the kernel headers for the target kernel version could not be
found
and you did not specify other valid kernel headers to use.


However, you can install the header files for your kernel which are
provided by
the linux-headers-3.8-trunk-686-pae package. For most modules packages,
these
files are perfectly sufficient without having the original kernel source.

To install the package, run:

module-assistant prepare

or

apt-get install linux-headers-3.8-trunk-686-pae
---snap---

(of course, linux-headers-3.8-trunk-686-pae is properly installed).


2. when setting KVERS and KSRC manually, it still fails to compile:

---snip---
dh_testdir
dh_prep
/usr/bin/make -C /usr/src/linux-headers-3.8-0baureo1-686-pae
SUBDIRS=/usr/src/modules/fglrx modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.8-0baureo1-686-pae'
  CC [M]  /usr/src/modules/fglrx/firegl_public.o
/usr/src/modules/fglrx/firegl_public.c: In function ‘KCL_MEM_VM_MapRegion’:
/usr/src/modules/fglrx/firegl_public.c:3893:39: error: ‘VM_RESERVED’
undeclared (first use in this function)
/usr/src/modules/fglrx/firegl_public.c:3893:39: note: each undeclared
identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
make[4]: *** [/usr/src/modules/fglrx/firegl_public.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [_module_/usr/src/modules/fglrx] Error 2
make[2]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.8-0baureo1-686-pae'
make: *** [build] Error 2
---snap---

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