On Mit, 2013-02-13 at 21:07 +0100, Albrecht Dreß wrote: > Am 13.02.13 19:01 schrieb(en) Alex Deucher: > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Daniel Vetter <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Alex Deucher <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >>> You could try and bisect if KMS used to work at some point in the > past. I've recently seen reports from others of r1xx cards working ok > at least on x86. > >> > >> I have an rv270 on an mac mini here and that thing used to work > with kms. Been a while though since I've last fired it up ... So going > back and trying to bisect could be really useful. > > > > If you could that would be great. > > The intermediate status: I installed Debian Squeeze on an extra disk, > and there the radeon driver works when I add the 'Option "MacModel" > "mini-internal"' to xorg.conf. Not a big surprise, as Linux 2.6.32 is > rather old. I also included 'radeon.modeset=1' in the Kernel command > line. dmesg says '[drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled', but > Xorg.0.log warns '[KMS] drm report modesetting isn't supported.'.
That means the X driver is running in UMS mode and programming the hardware directly behind the kernel driver's back, so this is not a valid test for KMS working. Make sure the radeon kernel module is loaded before X starts. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.amd.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
