DRM on VIA CLE266 and FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE

Novembre novembre at gmail.com
Sun Jun 24 18:44:17 UTC 2007


Anybody?



On 6/21/07, Novembre <novembre at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a Pentium III-S 1.40GHz system which has a VIA CLE266 chipset, and
> I have installed 6.2-RELEASE on it. On this machine, X.org 7.2 is running
> happily except for the lack of DRI. I have done some searching, and it seems
> that ( according to
> http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/FreeBSD?highlight=%28CategoryOperatingSystem%29) DRM is still not available for this chipset,
> i.e. VIA CLE266 is not in the list.
>
> Below is the message I get in Xorg.0.log:
> ----------
> (II) VIA(0): 3D Engine has been initialized.
> 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 "via"
> (II) VIA(0): [drm] drmOpen failed
> (EE) VIA(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed.  Disabling DRI.
> ----------
> I tried loading the 'drm' kernel module, but it cannot detect anything.
> Does this mean that there's no hope for DRI on this chipset?
>
Thanks
>
>
>


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