Problems enabling DRI on i810 chipset with xorg-server 1.4.2

Adam K Kirchhoff adamk at voicenet.com
Fri Apr 17 04:20:22 PDT 2009


On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:09:36 +1000
Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Manish Jain <invalid.pointer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dave Airlie wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Paul B. Mahol <onemda at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> On 4/14/09, Manish Jain <invalid.pointer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> I am running xorg-server 1.4.2 on FreeBSD 7.1 (Release) on a Celeron
> >>>> Coppermine 800 MHz + Intel 810 chipset-based system. The xorg
> >>>> documentation states that enabling DRI on this chipset just requires the
> >>>> colour depth to be set to either 8 or 16 bpp. My xorg.conf uses just one
> >>>> screen with the depth set to 16. I am loading the agp module at
> >>>> boot-time via loader.conf. But xorg still disables DRI.
> >>>>
> >>>> Following are some relevant lines from xorg's log :
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> X.Org X Server 1.4.2
> >>>>> Release Date: 11 June 2008
> >>>>> (**) intel(0): page flipping disabled
> >>>>> (II) intel(0): XvMC is Disabled: use XvMCSurfaces config option to
> >>>>> enable.
> >>>>> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> >>>>> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such file or directory)
> >>>>> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such file or directory)
> >>>>> drmOpenDevice: Open failed
> >>>>> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> >>>>> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such file or directory)
> >>>>> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such file or directory)
> >>>>> drmOpenDevice: Open failed
> >>>>> [drm] failed to load kernel module "i810"
> >>>>>
> >>>
> >>> is i915.ko loaded?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> you need to load i810.ko not i915.ko.
> >>
> >> Dave.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Hello Dave,
> >
> > Thank you for your input.
> >
> > I myself wish things were that simple :
> >
> >> /boot/kernel # ls -l *810*
> >> ls: *810*: No such file or directory
> 
> not sure where your kernel is come from, but you should have
> an i810.ko, CONFIG_DRM_I810 should create it.

Not on FreeBSD :-)  He is correct, though, there does not appear to be
any i810 kernel module on FreeBSD.

Adam



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