On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 15:26 +1000, Dan wrote: > > I've finally built a 2.6.31-rc kernel that boots. Not sure what's been > going on there. Anyway, I've been keen to test KMS & TTM stuff. > Unfortunatley, it's a double no-go. > > When the radeon module loads ( I assume for flicker-free boot, I'll > have to build it into the kernel, and not as a module ), the screen > goes black, and I get a warning that the current mode is out of range. > Is there some kernel arg to override the default settings? Should the > radeon module already be detecting supported modes? > > Next, when X tried to load, it crashes ( with a very corrupted image - > didn't switch back to the console and give me 'current mode out of > range' error ... should it? ). See log at: > http://entropy.homelinux.org/Xorg.KMS.log
Check dmesg for drm or agp related output. If it looks like AGP is failing, try reducing the radeon.agpmode parameter value, in the worst case down to -1 to disable AGP. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.vmware.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
