Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-xorg (31 mails)

[aga <sus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 12 April 2005 03:34, Markus Kossmann wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 12. April 2005 01:45 schrieb aga:
> > I've spent a lot of time trying to get direct rendering enabled, but
> > configuration keeps failing with (from sax.log):-
> >         (II) fglrx(0): doing DRIScreenInit
> >         drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> >         drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
> >         drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
> >         drmOpenDevice: Open failed
> >         drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> >         drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
> >         drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
> >         drmOpenDevice: Open failed
> >         FATAL: Error inserting fglrx
> > (/lib/modules/2.6.8-24.14-default/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.ko): No
> > such device
> >         [drm] failed to load kernel module "fglrx"
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> You probably need to (re)compile the kernel module from sources to get a
> matching version for your updated kernel version.
>

>Hi Marcus 

Thanks.  If I've downloaded the kernel and the matching kernel-source, I was 
assuming that I didn't need to recompile.  Am I wrong here, then?

Allan