<p>
End users shouldn't have to go through all these steps once the driver is
included in newer Linux distributions.
+Fedora 18 and Ubuntu 12.10 include the VMware guest GL driver, for example.
</p>
<p>
<pre>
git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/vmwgfx
</pre>
-
-<li>libdrm, A user-space library that interfaces with drm. Most distros ship with this driver. Safest bet is really to replace the system one. Optionally you can point LIBDRM_CFLAGS and LIBDRM_LIBS to the libdrm-2.4.22 package in toolchain. But here, we replace:
+<li>libdrm, a user-space library that interfaces with drm.
+Most distros ship with this but it's safest to install a newer version.
+To get the latest code from git:
<pre>
git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/drm
</pre>
<li>Build libdrm: If you're on a 32-bit system, you should skip the --libdir configure option. Note also the comment about toolchain libdrm above.
<pre>
cd $TOP/drm
- ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --enable-vmwgfx-experimental-api --libdir=/usr/lib64
+ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64
make
sudo make install
</pre>
sudo cp 00-vmwgfx.rules /etc/udev/rules.d
sudo depmod -ae
</pre>
+
+Note: some distros put DRM kernel drivers in different directories.
+For example, sometimes vmwgfx.ko might be found in
+<code>/lib/modules/{version}/extra/vmwgfx.ko</code> or in
+<code>/lib/modules/{version}/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx.ko</code>.
+<p>
+After installing vmwgfx.ko you might want to run the following command to
+check that the new kernel module is in the expected place:
+<pre>
+ find /lib/modules -name vmwgfx.ko -exec ls -l '{}' \;
+</pre>
+If you see the kernel module listed in more than one place, you may need to
+move things around.
+<p>
+Finally, if you update your kernel you'll probably have to rebuild and
+reinstall the vmwgfx.ko module again.
</ul>