Problems enabling DRI on i810 chipset with xorg-server 1.4.2

Robert Noland rnoland at 2hip.net
Fri Apr 17 14:03:20 PDT 2009


On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 07:20 -0400, Adam K Kirchhoff 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.

We never built it... Last word was that i915 was supposed to support all
chipsets.

robert.

> Adam
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