Problems enabling DRI on i810 chipset with xorg-server 1.4.2

Dave Airlie airlied at gmail.com
Fri Apr 17 04:09:36 PDT 2009


On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Manish Jain <invalid.pointer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dave Airlie wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Paul B. Mahol <onemda at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 4/14/09, Manish Jain <invalid.pointer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I am running xorg-server 1.4.2 on FreeBSD 7.1 (Release) on a Celeron
>>>> Coppermine 800 MHz + Intel 810 chipset-based system. The xorg
>>>> documentation states that enabling DRI on this chipset just requires the
>>>> colour depth to be set to either 8 or 16 bpp. My xorg.conf uses just one
>>>> screen with the depth set to 16. I am loading the agp module at
>>>> boot-time via loader.conf. But xorg still disables DRI.
>>>>
>>>> Following are some relevant lines from xorg's log :
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> X.Org X Server 1.4.2
>>>>> Release Date: 11 June 2008
>>>>> (**) intel(0): page flipping disabled
>>>>> (II) intel(0): XvMC is Disabled: use XvMCSurfaces config option to
>>>>> enable.
>>>>> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
>>>>> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such file or directory)
>>>>> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such file or directory)
>>>>> drmOpenDevice: Open failed
>>>>> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
>>>>> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such file or directory)
>>>>> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such file or directory)
>>>>> drmOpenDevice: Open failed
>>>>> [drm] failed to load kernel module "i810"
>>>>>
>>>
>>> is i915.ko loaded?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> you need to load i810.ko not i915.ko.
>>
>> Dave.
>>
>>
>
> Hello Dave,
>
> Thank you for your input.
>
> I myself wish things were that simple :
>
>> /boot/kernel # ls -l *810*
>> ls: *810*: No such file or directory

not sure where your kernel is come from, but you should have
an i810.ko, CONFIG_DRM_I810 should create it.

Dave.



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