I have the most stuff installed now, but especially the graphics drm/dri/mesa/unichrome/xvmc/xmmc stuff was pretty confusing in the beginning. I guess I got most of it straight and compiled a little list of which patches/apps i used.

Kernel
I’m still using 2.6.7 with ck-patches on all my boxes, for they are just running.. i did a quick a quick test with 2.6.10-rc3 to see if it solves a CardBus-issue, which it didn’t.

Anyhow, a short list of patches used:

• EPIA patch set found here, containing the following patches:
• Unichrome-DRM - Direct rendering. You can either use this patch _or_ build the DRM kernel module from the DRI-sources. I prefer the later and therefore don’t apply this patch.
• vt1211 - Support for the vt1211 sensoring chip for h/w-monitoring.
• Longhaul - Enhanced cpufreq support
• viarng - Support for the MII’s random numer generator.
• Patch for memory problems with CardBus (see above) found here

Like mentioned above, I don’t use the Unichrome-DRM-Kernel-patch but compile the module from the sources available from the DRI-Projects CVS. Brief installation instructions can be found at their WIKI (Building), chapters 1.1.1.2 Getting DRM and 1.1.9 Building the DRM on Linux.

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