RADEONDRIGetVersion failed to open the DRM

[Michel Dänzer]

On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 15:04 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: 
> My problem that I think matches a thread that dead-ended without solution at
> http://www.mail-archive.com/xorg-driver-ati@lists.x.org/msg06865.html
> 
> One apparent difference is that KDM works. The problem only begins after
> login, or if I run startx from runlevel 3 instead of logging in from KDM, but
> I too am missing a line from dmesg that contains "...on minor 0".
> 
> I'm using openSUSE 11.1 with 2.6.27. Hardware config and Xorg.0.log are at
> http://fm.no-ip.com/tmp/SUSE/111/p1ph1lvf-video.txt
> 
> A longer problem description is at
> http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-xorg/2010-03/msg00000.html
> 
> Knoppix 6.2.1 has no such problem.
> http://fm.no-ip.com/tmp/Linux/Xorg/xorg.conf-p1ph1lvf-knoppix621-radeon and
> http://fm.no-ip.com/tmp/Linux/Xorg/xorg.0.log-p1ph1lvf-knoppix621-radeon are
> its xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log.
> 
> Is there a way get the openSUSE radeon kernel module to recognize this 6 year
> old "card" without compiling myself? It's pretty hard to believe that any
> radeon this age would not be recognized on a major distro like openSUSE
> released several years after the hardware was made.

That's what it looks like though; the Knoppix log file shows much newer
versions of the kernel and X driver, those in openSUSE may just be too
old for the hardware.


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