Attention: Proprietary video driver users (ATI, Nvidia, etc.)

[Emeric Maschino]

> Speaking of DRI, I have an ATI 200M.  Using clean install of xorg driver, I
> see this:
> 
> (WW) RADEON(0): Enabling DRM support
> 
> [...]
> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
> [ repeat 255 times ...]
> (II) RADEON(0): [drm] drmOpen failed
> (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed.  Disabling DRI.
> 
> I think I mentioned this here before, and IIRC someone else said they have
> exactly the same result.  Is this expected behavior?
> 
> /sbin/lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> radeon                141665  0 
> drm                   117481  1 radeon
> 
> drm is loaded, but there are no /dev/dri/<anything>

Same thing here with an ATI FireGL X1 (R300 chipset) on an Itanium
workstation.