RADEONDRIGetVersion failed to open the DRM

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Sat Jan 10 03:33:16 PST 2009


On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 20:38 -0500, mercado wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> sudo lsmod | grep radeon
> 
> radeon                124192  0
> drm                    82452  1 radeon

[...]

> [   75.631540] NET: Registered protocol family 17
> [   75.669764] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
> [   90.936793] eth0: no IPv6 routers present

The radeon kernel module doesn't recognize your card, it's probably too
old, so you'll need either a newer kernel or to build the DRM from
git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/drm .


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Libre software enthusiast         |          Debian, X and DRI developer


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