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authorErik Faye-Lund <[email protected]>2019-06-04 10:39:58 +0200
committerMarge Bot <[email protected]>2020-06-13 10:42:00 +0000
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docs: format notes as rst-notes
Reviewed-by: Eric Engestrom <[email protected]> Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/4630>
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echo vmwgfx | sudo tee -a /etc/modules
- Note: some distros put DRM kernel drivers in different directories.
- For example, sometimes vmwgfx.ko might be found in
- ``/lib/modules/{version}/extra/vmwgfx.ko`` or in
- ``/lib/modules/{version}/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx.ko``.
+ .. note::
- After installing vmwgfx.ko you might want to run the following
- command to check that the new kernel module is in the expected place:
+ some distros put DRM kernel drivers in different directories.
+ For example, sometimes vmwgfx.ko might be found in
+ ``/lib/modules/{version}/extra/vmwgfx.ko`` or in
+ ``/lib/modules/{version}/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx.ko``.
- ::
+ After installing vmwgfx.ko you might want to run the following
+ command to check that the new kernel module is in the expected place:
+
+ ::
- find /lib/modules -name vmwgfx.ko -exec ls -l '{}' \;
+ find /lib/modules -name vmwgfx.ko -exec ls -l '{}' \;
- If you see the kernel module listed in more than one place, you may
- need to move things around.
+ If you see the kernel module listed in more than one place, you may
+ need to move things around.
Finally, if you update your kernel you'll probably have to rebuild
and reinstall the vmwgfx.ko module again.