fglrx won't initalise DRI

[m c]

On 9/28/06, Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe.alfaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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/

Thanks for the suggestion. The error is slightly different in
xorg.0.log now, so I think there may be another problem. IIRC this is
now back to the same error I got in dapper :s

>From Xorg.0.log:
(II) Loading extension ATIFGLRXDRI
(II) fglrx(0): doing DRIScreenInit
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
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"
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] drmOpen failed
(EE) fglrx(0): DRIScreenInit failed!
(WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************************
(WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed!                  *
(WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO)             *
(WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available                *
(WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* *
(II) fglrx(0): FBADPhys: 0xe0000000 FBMappedSize: 0x0ffe0000

Any other possibilities?

Many thanks,
Mark