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

[Alex Deucher]

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 1:27 AM, lesliek at ozemail.com.au
<lesliek at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> Thanks for replying, Corbin.
>
> Unfortunately, I haven't got the technical knowledge to understand your reply.
>
> Could I just ask this?
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> Right now, the log tells me that "ModulePath [is] set to '/usr/lib/X11/modules'".
>
> There's a Modules section in my xorg.conf file that lists five modules, "extmod",
> "dbe", "glx", "freetype" and "dri". Four of those are in
> /usr/lib/X11/modules/extensions, while one is in /usr/lib/X11/modules/fonts.
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> The file mach64_dri.so is in /usr/lib/dri.
>
> Is there any chance that I could copy /dri/mach64_dri.so to /usr/lib/X11/modules
> and then add the file's name to the Modules section in my xorg.conf file? Or was
> your reply telling me in effect that that's what I can't do?

mach64_dri.so is the userspace 3D driver.  It's fine where it is.  You
also need a kernel module that the userspace 3D driver talks to
actually send the commands to the card.  The mach64 kernel module was
never merged into the kernel so so you'll have to dig it out of the
old out of kernel drm git tree and built it yourself.  I doubt it will
build on a recent kernel, so you'll probably have to do some hacking
to get it built against whatever kernel you are running.

Alex

>
> Thanks again,
>
> Leslie
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> On Wed Aug  4 14:54 , Corbin Simpson  sent:
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>>The DRI drivers are userspace. The DRM component for mach64, a kernel driver,
> isn't included in the standard Linux kernel. You are probably on your own as far
> as obtaining and building it.
>>Sending from a mobile, pardon the brevity. ~ C.
>>On Aug 3, 2010 9:41 PM, "lesliek at ozemail.com.au" <lesliek at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
>>Thanks for your reply, Alex.
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>>SliTaz has available a package that it calls "mesa-dri-ati" and that it describes
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>>as "Mesa DRI drivers for AMD/ATI Radeon and mach64 (include Rage128)".
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>>My system reports that I have that package installed and that one of the files in
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>>the package is called mach64_dri.so.
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>>If I load that driver, will that overcome my problem? If yes, how do I do that,
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>>by editing xorg.conf in some way?
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>>(I should add that I just tried to load it using modprobe, but that didn't work.
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>>Sorry, I'm not too good at these things!)
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>>Thanks again,
>>
>>
>>Leslie
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>>To see papers written by me on, among oth...On Wed Aug  4 14:22 , Alex Deucher
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>>>On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:45 PM, lesliek at ozemail.com.au
>>>lesliek at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
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>>>> I'm usi...
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