On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 16:37, Mark McCorkell <markmccork...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: > Did a clean install of lenny i386 onto a laptop with a Radeon X700 > (RV4xx chipset). Normally I'd use fglrx but I decided to give the xorg > radeon driver a try to see if it had improved to a usable state yet. > > Unfortunately, xrandr still can't handle 2 monitors with this chipset. > It reports that two outputs are connected and even accepts commands to > switch to a spanned desktop without error - it just doesn't obey them > and stays in clone mode. > > I decided to upgrade to testing (avoided unstable after hearing a few > cautionary stories on the list) and now X crashes on startup with: > > 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 > > Backtrace: > 0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x7e) [0x80c91ce] > 1: [0xb7f6c400] > 2: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so(RADEONDRIGetVersion > +0x114) [0xb7b1abb4] > 3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so [0xb7ae7e53] > 4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so(RADEONPreInit+0xf2f) > [0xb7aeaa9f] > 5: /usr/bin/X(InitOutput+0xa0f) [0x80ab3ff] > 6: /usr/bin/X(main+0x2b1) [0x8074591] > 7: /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5) [0xb7cfb775] > 8: /usr/bin/X [0x8073a81] > > Fatal server error: > Caught signal 11. Server aborting > > Before it gets to this stage, the log suggests that the kernel module > and DRI extension are loaded OK. I've looked at there is no > device /dev/dri/card0 but I've got the impression that this is something > X should create dynamically. Am I wrong in this assumption - do I > somehow need to create it myself? Switching to fglrx causes this device > to appear, but the fglrx package in testing has a version difference > between the driver and the kernel module meaning it's not an ideal > solution. > > Any suggestions on how to solve this missing /dev/dri/card0 with the > radeon driver?
I don't know why you don't have card0. X never creates devices in dev, but udev should definitely have created it. What happens if you modprobe radeon_drv.so? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
