Re: [gNewSense-users] [Xorg] (EE) [drm] failed to open device

[Bake Timmons]

Stayvoid <address@hidden> writes:

> The drm issue could be connected with the incompatibility between
> libdrm and nouveau DRM. [1]

> (I don't know how to check the versions of libdrm and nouveau DRM. And
> I have no idea which ones are compatible.)

Try this:

$ grep DRICreatePCIBusID /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri*

If it doesn't match, you have to resolve the incompatibility somehow.
It's probably less work to install an older kernel with a compatible
nouveau module than it is to install a newer version of libdri into
/usr/local.

> P.S. I have a feeling that I forgot to enable some drm-related thing
> in the kernel. Are you sure that it's not connected with the wrong
> kernel configuration?

I looked again and could not see anything you left out.  Resolve the
incompatibility above and try again.

Cheers,
Bake