On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 08:19:43 +0100 "Bruno Costacurta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (WW) RADEON(0): Enabling DRM support > *** Direct rendering support is highly experimental for Radeon 9500 > *** and newer cards. The 3d mesa driver is not provided in this tree. > *** A very experimental (and incomplete) version is available from Mesa CVS. > *** Additional information can be found on http://r300.sourceforge.net > *** This message has been last modified on 2005-08-07. A: It indicates above that the experimental drivers are not in the tree you are using. > drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 > drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address) > drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address) > drmOpenDevice: Open failed B: After little googling it appears that this message is an indication that the kernel module is not loading. If you were only getting the first message I would think it would be enough to install the mesa packages from Debian unstable libgl1-mesa-dri, libgl1-mesa-glx, and libglu1-mesa. These packages work for me with a 9500 Pro. I suspect you will have to get newer stuff from: http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Download : follow the instructions for installing the snapshot. I did this on my system and for some reason I had to 'apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg' before I could get back into an X session, but once I was done it seemed to work and be using the newer stuff. If you still get the drmOpenDevice errors I did find a relevant post at: http://www.archivesat.com/Ubuntu_Kernel_team_discussions/thread207799.htm : If those don't get you going you might have to try getting the fglrx driver working. Looks like it's available in the repositories at least in Debian unstable if you have non-free in your sources.list so I'm assuming you could use kernel-package to compile and create a .deb file for the kernel module. Later, Seeker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
