(EE) [drm] drmOpen failed

[Matt Turner]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 5:29 AM, jh_wang2004 <jh_wang2004 at 163.com> wrote:
>         I use ubuntu9.04, my video card is intel G41. in the xorg.0.log
>
> X.Org X Server 1.6.0
> Release Date: 2009-2-25
>
> (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//intel_drv.so
> (II) Module intel: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
>     compiled for 1.6.0, module version = 2.6.3

You're running an old kernel, and old X server, an old -intel driver,
all on an old version of Ubuntu.

Update before trying to figure out this problem.