On Sat, Jul 8, 2017 at 9:05 AM, Ста Деюс <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. > > I'm fighting already days the problem of "/dev/dri/card0 -- no such > file" (old AGP card, NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440) -- as x-server states in > its log file. > > I have installed my system w/ hardened profile, it's being 32bit-system, > and then added x-programs to use it as desktop (i didn't install desktop > profile). Also, i didn't notice, that i set up testing version of the > distro (~86), and now want not to recompile all it to turn to stable > (86). > > The problem lays -- as i suppose -- in the kernel configuration that > does not create the /dev/dri/card0 device, required by x-server. I > exhausted all my ideas on which options to turn on to make it create > the device. I even compiled the general kernel -- but it was not > sufficient for that too. > > So, do you have any idea on which kernel's configuration option lets > kernel to create such a device? > > Thank you for your time, > Sthu. >
On my system, card0 is set up by the nouveau driver: :; ls -l /dev/dri/card0 crw-rw----+ 1 root video 226, 0 Jul 8 08:28 /dev/dri/card0 :; ls /sys/class/drm/card0/device/driver/module/drivers/ pci:nouveau Hope this helps.
