Attention: Proprietary video driver users (ATI, Nvidia, etc.)

[Partha Bagchi]

Neal Becker wrote:
> Speaking of DRI, I have an ATI 200M.  Using clean install of xorg driver, I
> see this:
>
> (WW) RADEON(0): Enabling DRM support
>
> [...]
> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
> [ repeat 255 times ...]
> (II) RADEON(0): [drm] drmOpen failed
> (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed.  Disabling DRI.
>
> I think I mentioned this here before, and IIRC someone else said they have
> exactly the same result.  Is this expected behavior?
>
> /sbin/lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> radeon                141665  0 
> drm                   117481  1 radeon
>
> drm is loaded, but there are no /dev/dri/<anything>
>
>   
I am glad you confirmed this since I was planning to try it again to see 
if the radeon drive could do DRI. You and I have identical machines btw. :)