fglrx won't initalise DRI

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On 9/28/06, m c <markc.lists at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> The fglrx driver seems to fail on loading the drm module and DRI fails
> to initialise on my ATI X1900. Same result on both Dapper and Edgy...
>
> The errors in Xorg.log are:
> (II) Reloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/linux/libdrm.so
> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
> drmOpenDevice: Open failed
> [drm] failed to load kernel module "fglrx"
> (WW) fglrx(0): Failed to open DRM connection
>
> and:
> (II) fglrx(0): Composite extension enabled, disabling direct render


Seems you're using the Composite extension. AFAIK, fglrx doesn't like
Composite extension.

Take a look at this. I think it may help you:

http://felipe-alfaro.org/blog/2006/09/06/ubuntu-edgy-ati-fglrx-dri-3d-acceleration-and-xorg-composite-extension/
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