Problems enabling DRI on i810 chipset with xorg-server 1.4.2

Dave Airlie airlied at gmail.com
Fri Apr 17 04:30:53 PDT 2009


On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk at voicenet.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:09:36 +1000
> Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Not on FreeBSD :-)  He is correct, though, there does not appear to be
> any i810 kernel module on FreeBSD.
>

Oh I missed !linux part, yes nobody has ever bothered porting i810 to
FreeBSD AFAIK.

Dave.



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