[drm] failed to load kernel module "i915"

[Roland Smith]

On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 10:27:09PM -0500, GRF . wrote:
> I have installed 5.3 and am trying to set up xorg on an Intel motherboard 
> with a build in 945 chipset graphic card.  4.10 was a breeze to set up for 
> X but so far I receive what I believe is the following error:
> 
> -snip- from Xorg.0.log
> 
> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such file or directory)
> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such file or directory)
> drmOpenDevice: Open failed
> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such file or directory)
> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such file or directory)
> drmOpenDevice: Open failed
> [drm] failed to load kernel module "i915"
> (II) I810(0): [drm] drmOpen failed
> (EE) I810(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI.
> 
> -snip-
> 
> The complete Xorg.0.log can be seen here:  
> http://www.dawgeestyle.com/Xorg.0.log
> 
> The xorg.conf.new can be seen here:  
> http://www.dawgeestyle.com/xorg.conf.new
> 
> Where do I go from here?
> 

Try adding the following section to xorg.conf:

Section "DRI"
        Mode    0666
EndSection

Roland
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