Bug#571273: xorg: No 3d acceleration because "Failed to open DRM device"

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Boris Barbour wrote:
> Thanks for your instantaneous reply, Brice.
>
>   
>> Are drm and i915 kernel modules loaded ?
>>     
>
> Yes:
>
> $ lsmod | grep i915
> i915                  168328  0
> drm                   172512  1 i915
> video                  21884  1 i915
> i2c_algo_bit            5988  2 i915,intelfb
> i2c_core               25424  5 i915,drm,intelfb,i2c_algo_bit,i2c_i801
> $ lsmod | grep drm
> drm                   172512  1 i915
> i2c_core               25424  5 i915,drm,intelfb,i2c_algo_bit,i2c_i801
>   

We need to see what dmesg says about drm and i915 then. And that's
probably a kernel bug that's fixed in 2.6.32 and 2.6.33 then.

Brice