Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-ati-6.8.0-r1 problems

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Friday 18 July 2008, Andreas Niederl wrote:
> Mick wrote:
> > On Thursday 17 July 2008, Andrew Tchernoivanov wrote:
> >>> # modprobe -v radeon_drv
> >>> FATAL: Module radeon_drv not found.
> >>
> >> That's strange. But try one more thing - copy this radeon_drv from
> >> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers to /lib/modules/<kernel
> >> version>/kernel/drivers/video
> >> Because according to modprobe's man page, by default it will look driver
> >> in /lib/modules/...
> >> So try to copy it and write here, what will modprobe say
> >
> > First I linked it:
> >
> > # ls -la /lib/modules/2.6.24-gentoo-r8/kernel/drivers/video/
> > total 8
> > drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  144 Jul 17 22:21 .
> > drwxr-xr-x 14 root root  344 May 14 18:34 ..
> > drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   72 May 14 18:34 backlight
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root 4291 May 14 18:34 output.ko
> > lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   43 Jul 17 22:21
> > radeon.so -> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so
> >
> > but since that did not work, I copied it:
> >
> > # ls -la /lib/modules/2.6.24-gentoo-r8/kernel/drivers/video/
> > total 448
> > drwxr-xr-x  3 root root    176 Jul 17 22:27 .
> > drwxr-xr-x 14 root root    344 May 14 18:34 ..
> > drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     72 May 14 18:34 backlight
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root   4291 May 14 18:34 output.ko
> > lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     43 Jul 17 22:21
> > radeon.so -> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so
> > -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 448808 Jul 17 07:09 radeon_drv.so
> >
> > Modprobing either of the two fails with the same error message.
>
> That's because this is not a kernel module.
>
> > drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> > drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
> > drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
> > drmOpenDevice: Open failed
> > [drm] failed to load kernel module "radeon"
> > (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed to open the DRM
> > [dri] Disabling DRI.
>
> I'm just guessing here, but maybe your kernel is missing DRM support for
> your graphics chip.
>
> What's the output of grep -i radeon /boot/config-$(uname -r) ?

# grep -i radeon /boot/config-$(uname -r)
CONFIG_FB_RADEON=y
CONFIG_FB_RADEON_I2C=y
CONFIG_FB_RADEON_BACKLIGHT=y
# CONFIG_FB_RADEON_DEBUG is not set

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Regards,
Mick

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