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POWERVR Drivers

KYRO Drivers (Unsupported legacy drivers)

Windows

2.2 Beta 1 (Build 2.02.22.0033)

1.6 (Build 1.06.16.0051)
These are the previous driver release (WHQL Certified).

v1.6 Windows XP (1.06.16.0051) - 7.0MB

1.4 (Build 1.04.14.0028)

Linux

Download the source as a RPM or TGZ file to build the drivers for your Linux distribution, by following the instructions in the README file.

Linux kernel 2.6 introduced major structural changes to the way driver modules are built and loaded. As a result, existing KYRO drivers are not compatible with any Linux kernel whose version is 2.6 or above. To keep using KYRO drivers, users are requested to use the latest available 2.4 Linux kernel version. We have currently no plans of providing drivers supporting updated kernels.

Specific Linux Distributions
If you are having difficulty with the generic Linux install, these installations created for specific Linux distributions may be useful.

RedHat 9.0

RedHat 9.0 RPM Installation Problem
If you install the powervr-2.01.21-7.src.rpm package on a RedHat 9.0 system, following the installation instructions in the Readme, (under the "Rpm based system with custom kernel" heading) you will see the the error message below at the end of the installation process.

RPM build errors: Could not open %files file /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/${RPM_PACKAGE_NAME}-
${RPM_PACKAGE_VERSION}-${RPM_PACKAGE_RELEASE}/debugfiles.list: No such file or directory

This is caused by RedHat 9.0 using rpm 4.2 and the PowerVR-2.01.21-7.src.rpm package using rpm 4.1.

If you are attempting to install the KYRO drivers on a RedHat 9.0 Linux system with the original vendor supplied kernel, you should follow the Readme section for "SuSE, Red Hat or Mandrake with vendor kernels". This will guide you through the install process for the powervr-2.00.20-516.rh90.[i386,i686,athlon].rpm package.

If you are attempting to install on a RedHat 9.0 Linux system with a modified kernel you can install the powervr-2.01.21-7.tgz package by following the installation instructions under the "Non-rpm based system" heading in the Readme.