intel 845g

Net Llama! netllama
Mon May 17 11:48:16 PDT 2004


On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Chris Kassopulo wrote:
> #Section "DRI"
> #     Mode 0666
> #EndSection

You should uncomment this.

>
> When dri is enabled in XF86Config, X complains
> on startup:
>
>     i830.o unresolved symbols
>         rwsem_down_write_failed
>         rwsem_wake
>         insmod i830 failed

Most likely because the module was compiled against a different kernel
than you are running.

> The XFree.log says:
>
>     drmOpenDevice: minor is 0
>                  : node name is /dev/drx/card0
> 		 : open result -1 (no such device)
> 		 : Open failed
>     [drm] failed to load kernel module "i830"
>
> As is, there are no errors.  Either way, X starts.
>
> Any idea what /dev/drx/card0 is ?

See /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt
226 char        Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI)
                  0 = /dev/dri/card0            First graphics card

You need to create that device with mknod.

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