Re: No X after upgrade from lenny to testing with radeon x700
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 16:37, Mark McCorkell
<markmccorkell@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> Did a clean install of lenny i386 onto a laptop with a Radeon X700
> (RV4xx chipset). Normally I'd use fglrx but I decided to give the xorg
> radeon driver a try to see if it had improved to a usable state yet.
>
> Unfortunately, xrandr still can't handle 2 monitors with this chipset.
> It reports that two outputs are connected and even accepts commands to
> switch to a spanned desktop without error - it just doesn't obey them
> and stays in clone mode.
>
> I decided to upgrade to testing (avoided unstable after hearing a few
> cautionary stories on the list) and now X crashes on startup with:
>
> 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
>
> Backtrace:
> 0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x7e) [0x80c91ce]
> 1: [0xb7f6c400]
> 2: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so(RADEONDRIGetVersion
> +0x114) [0xb7b1abb4]
> 3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so [0xb7ae7e53]
> 4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so(RADEONPreInit+0xf2f)
> [0xb7aeaa9f]
> 5: /usr/bin/X(InitOutput+0xa0f) [0x80ab3ff]
> 6: /usr/bin/X(main+0x2b1) [0x8074591]
> 7: /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5) [0xb7cfb775]
> 8: /usr/bin/X [0x8073a81]
>
> Fatal server error:
> Caught signal 11. Server aborting
>
> Before it gets to this stage, the log suggests that the kernel module
> and DRI extension are loaded OK. I've looked at there is no
> device /dev/dri/card0 but I've got the impression that this is something
> X should create dynamically. Am I wrong in this assumption - do I
> somehow need to create it myself? Switching to fglrx causes this device
> to appear, but the fglrx package in testing has a version difference
> between the driver and the kernel module meaning it's not an ideal
> solution.
>
> Any suggestions on how to solve this missing /dev/dri/card0 with the
> radeon driver?
I don't know why you don't have card0. X never creates devices in dev,
but udev should definitely have created it. What happens if you modprobe
radeon_drv.so?
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