[drm] drmOpen failed; MACH64(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit Failed

[lesliek at ozemail.com.au]

Thanks for replying, Corbin.

Unfortunately, I haven't got the technical knowledge to understand your reply.

Could I just ask this?

Right now, the log tells me that "ModulePath [is] set to '/usr/lib/X11/modules'".

There's a Modules section in my xorg.conf file that lists five modules, "extmod",
"dbe", "glx", "freetype" and "dri". Four of those are in
/usr/lib/X11/modules/extensions, while one is in /usr/lib/X11/modules/fonts.

The file mach64_dri.so is in /usr/lib/dri.

Is there any chance that I could copy /dri/mach64_dri.so to /usr/lib/X11/modules
and then add the file's name to the Modules section in my xorg.conf file? Or was
your reply telling me in effect that that's what I can't do?

Thanks again,

Leslie

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On Wed Aug  4 14:54 , Corbin Simpson  sent:

>The DRI drivers are userspace. The DRM component for mach64, a kernel driver,
isn't included in the standard Linux kernel. You are probably on your own as far
as obtaining and building it.
>Sending from a mobile, pardon the brevity. ~ C.
>On Aug 3, 2010 9:41 PM, "lesliek at ozemail.com.au" <lesliek at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
>Thanks for your reply, Alex.
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>SliTaz has available a package that it calls "mesa-dri-ati" and that it describes
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>as "Mesa DRI drivers for AMD/ATI Radeon and mach64 (include Rage128)".
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>My system reports that I have that package installed and that one of the files in
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>the package is called mach64_dri.so.
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>If I load that driver, will that overcome my problem? If yes, how do I do that,
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>by editing xorg.conf in some way?
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>(I should add that I just tried to load it using modprobe, but that didn't work.
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>Sorry, I'm not too good at these things!)
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>Thanks again,
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>Leslie
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>To see papers written by me on, among oth...On Wed Aug  4 14:22 , Alex Deucher
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>>On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:45 PM, lesliek at ozemail.com.au
>>lesliek at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
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>>> I'm usi...