How do i enable DRI support in Xorg?

Luk van den Borne luktheluckyboy at gmail.com
Sat May 7 05:19:51 PDT 2005


Does FreeBSD already support the i830/i915 DRI drivers? According to
http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/dri/, the i810 is still on the TODO
list, which makes me wonder about newer chipsets. I get this error in
my xorg log:

(II) Loading sub module "drm"
(II) LoadModule: "drm"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/freebsd/libdrm.a
(II) Module drm: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
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 "i915"
(II) I810(0): [drm] drmOpen failed


On 5/7/05, Jaimie Garner <jaimie at onsitepcs.net> wrote:
> I asumed it would just gave em a link to shed some light on how I did it with
> Linux. I havent ran X on FreeBSD.
> On Friday 06 May 2005 3:17 pm, Matthias Buelow wrote:
> > Jaimie Garner wrote:
> > >Go here http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Building this helped me to build
> > > Xorg + Mesa and DRI for ATI Radeon on a custome built linux system.
> > > Should not be to far off for FreeBSD.
> >
> > The OP does not have to build Xorg manually.  The ports system
> > already does this, and his video chipset is old enough to be supported
> > by the latest release Xorg (if it isn't, then a CVS Xorg won't help.)
> >
> > The OP could post the error messages pertaining to DRI
> > (from /var/log/Xorg.0.log) plus the output from "xdriinfo"
> > and "kldstat".
> >
> > mkb.
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