Thanks for your reply, Alex. SliTaz has available a package that it calls "mesa-dri-ati" and that it describes as "Mesa DRI drivers for AMD/ATI Radeon and mach64 (include Rage128)".
My system reports that I have that package installed and that one of the files in the package is called mach64_dri.so. If I load that driver, will that overcome my problem? If yes, how do I do that, by editing xorg.conf in some way? (I should add that I just tried to load it using modprobe, but that didn't work. Sorry, I'm not too good at these things!) Thanks again, Leslie -------------------------------------------------- To see papers written by me on, among other things, literary allusions in Australian reasons for judgment, start here: http://ssrn.com/author=1164057 To see photos taken by me of, among other things, Sydney now (as well as comparative photos taken by others of Sydney then), start here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/23623...@n03/sets/72157604225021655/ -------------------------------------------------- On Wed Aug 4 14:22 , Alex Deucher sent: >On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:45 PM, lesl...@ozemail.com.au >lesl...@ozemail.com.au> wrote: >> I'm using Slitaz v 3 and a mach64 driver obtained from the Slitaz >> repositories. >> >> In my Xorg.0.log, I find the following lines: >> >> (II) MACH64(0): [drm] SAREA 2200+1208: 3408 >> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 >> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) >> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) >> drmOpenDevice: Open failed >> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 >> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) >> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) >> drmOpenDevice: Open failed >> [drm] failed to load kernel module "mach64" >> (EE) [drm] drmOpen failed. >> (EE) MACH64(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit Failed >> >> With regard to much of those lines, I do have a directory called /dev/dri, >> but >> it's empty. Something I read suggested that card0 would be added to that >> directory by the loading of the drm module. In my case, the drm module loads >> automatically on boot-up, but that doesn't seem to create the card0 file >> that's >> being looked for. >> >> Is there something more I should be doing to overcome the two errors listed? > >You need to have the mach64 drm installed. I'm not sure it was ever >merged into the upstream kernel. > >Alex _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com
