Bug#579858: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: X fails to find nouveau device

[Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

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On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 11:35:33PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
> Version: 1:0.0.15+git20100329+7858345-3
> Severity: important
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have been trying to configure nouveau for my nvidia card but looks like I have a very preliminary problem
> for which I did not find a solution yet.
> 
> 
> X fails complaining that it could not find any of the device in /dev/dri/cardN
> On my box, even with nvidia.ko loaded, I do not have the /dev/dri/ folder at all.
> 
> 
> Any ideas on where I should start investigating ?
> I did manually load the nouveau.ko driver as it does not autoload.
> 
> Is it because of a missing udev rule ?

Does this still occur with more recent kernels?

Cheers,
        Moritz