[Savage40] /dev/dri/card0

[emanuele ..:: www.rumoridifondo.com ::..]

ok, thank you so much!
i have definitely clear up my doubts

bye
emanuele

Alex Deucher ha scritto:

>--- "emanuele ..:: www.rumoridifondo.com ::.."
><emanuele at rumoridifondo.com> wrote:
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>>i can't manage to load the module "savage" from my mandriva 2006
>>(kernel 
>>2.6.12mdk).
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>>if i type:
>># modprobe savage
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>>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?)
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>don't use savagefb.  It doesn't get along with the savage X server.
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>>it's a 2 month i'm trying to make work my savage 4 but i didn't
>>manage!
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>>i've tried to recompile my kernel but it doesn't create any module 
>>called savage.
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>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
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>>i've also tried to create /dev/dri/card0 by "mknod" but every time i 
>>boot xorg that file disappear....
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>it get created on the fly.
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>>ps. i didn't update my mesa driver (i've installed version 5) because
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>>it's the most recent on mandriva.
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>you need to use drm/mesa/xorg from cvs.  see above.
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>Alex
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