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Re: ibook g4, no success with the radeon driver.



On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 04:12:15PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 15:59, Chris Anderson wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> As I don't see any other problem in the log, I assume you're trying to
> get the DRI working? If so, you need to fix this, why can't it load the
> radeon module (try modprobe radeon)? Note that I'm not sure the DRI will
> work (well) with XFree86 4.3, you may want to try the dri-trunk-sid
> packages.

Because he uses the default debian kernel, which doesn't include drm
modules (yet) ? 

I will try to soon make a 2.4.23 powerpc kernel upload which include the
drm modules, altough i would prefer to skip 2.4.23 and go with 2.4.24
directly. But i have to wait for Herbert for that.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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