[Savage40] /dev/dri/card0

[Alex Deucher]

--- "emanuele ..:: www.rumoridifondo.com ::.."
<emanuele at rumoridifondo.com> wrote:

> i can't manage to load the module "savage" from my mandriva 2006
> (kernel 
> 2.6.12mdk).
> 
> if i type:
> # modprobe savage
> 
> the console tell me:
> "FATAL: Module savage not found."
> 
> perhaps i got the module "savagefb" but even if i load it the log
> file 
> "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" tell me that it's not possible to open 
> "/dev/dri/card0" which i think is created by the module "savage"
> (isn't it?)
> 

don't use savagefb.  It doesn't get along with the savage X server.

> 
> it's a 2 month i'm trying to make work my savage 4 but i didn't
> manage!
> 
> i've tried to recompile my kernel but it doesn't create any module 
> called savage.

The savage module was only very recently pushed to the kernel, so it
won't show up in any kernels except the most recent from kernel.org or
Andrew's tree.  If you want to use the DRI you can either install the
binary snapshots from the DRI project:
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Download#head-55420c59a1c2e9a70f07a6fa02f0d228ffb87b76
or build the most recent drm, mesa, and xorg from cvs:
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Building

> 
> i've also tried to create /dev/dri/card0 by "mknod" but every time i 
> boot xorg that file disappear....
> 

it get created on the fly.

> 
> ps. i didn't update my mesa driver (i've installed version 5) because
> 
> it's the most recent on mandriva.
> 

you need to use drm/mesa/xorg from cvs.  see above.

Alex



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