I have what appears to be the same problem with a Sony Vaio VGN-A270P. It has an ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 chipset. I had upgraded 8.04 (Hardy) to 8.10 (Intrepid) and rebooted. On the reboot, X would not load. Xorg.0.log has toward the end...
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 Then it gives a backtrace. There is nothing in /dev/dri Booted the same machine (the Sony Vaio) with the "live CD" 8.10 (Intrepid) alpha disk. It worked. The radeon module was loaded (I used lsmod to check) and /dev/dri/card0 did exist. There seemed to be a few problems with X when trying to switch users, but I didn't play with it enough to determine exactly what the problems were. Perhaps in fixing these problems, something else got broken. So the point of this is that the radeon modules and the kernel were working in the alpha version but not in the production version. -- [intrepid] X11: no device detected https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/267241 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
