[drm] drmOpen failed; MACH64(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit Failed

[Alex Deucher]

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:45 PM, lesliek at ozemail.com.au
<lesliek at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> I'm using Slitaz v 3 and a mach64 driver obtained from the Slitaz repositories.
>
> In my Xorg.0.log, I find the following lines:
>
> (II) MACH64(0): [drm] SAREA 2200+1208: 3408
> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
> drmOpenDevice: Open failed
> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
> drmOpenDevice: Open failed
> [drm] failed to load kernel module "mach64"
> (EE) [drm] drmOpen failed.
> (EE) MACH64(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit Failed
>
> With regard to much of those lines, I do have a directory called /dev/dri, but
> it's empty. Something I read suggested that card0 would be added to that
> directory by the loading of the drm module. In my case, the drm module loads
> automatically on boot-up, but that doesn't seem to create the card0 file that's
> being looked for.
>
> Is there something more I should be doing to overcome the two errors listed?

You need to have the mach64 drm installed.  I'm not sure it was ever
merged into the upstream kernel.

Alex