upgrade of kernel breaks drm/dri?

["Kevin B. Hendricks" <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>]

Hi,

Forgive me if this has been dicsussed before.  Tux racer used to work just 
fine with my old YDL 3 kernel and XFree86 4.3.0.

I have now upgrade to to Ben's latest 2.4.23 kernel and it seems sadly Tux 
racer has sloowed way down again.

Looking in /var/log/XFree86*.log the only bad thing I can see is:

drmOpenDevice: minor is 0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenDevice: minor is 0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
[drm] failed to load kernel module "radeon"
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] drmOpen failed
(EE) RADEON(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed.  Disabling DRI.


So it appears I seem to be missing a device node.  I manually used mknod as 
root to create /dev/dri/card0 (card1, card2 and card3 already existed but no 
card0) using char 226,0

But it seems that everytime I startup X something deletes my newly created 
device node "card0".

Does anyone have a clue as to why that special device keeps getting deleted 
and or what I should do to get poor Tux back up to speed.

Any hints appreciated.

Thanks,

Kevin