On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Brice Goglin <brice.gog...@ens-lyon.org>wrote:
> Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon > > Version: 1:6.12.4-2 > > Severity: normal > > > > Hi, > > > > since Debian testing is now shipping with Linux Kernel 2.6.32 which has > mature support > > for kernel-based modesetting it would be a nice option to have KMS also > enabled in the > > xorg driver to take full advantage of KMS. > > > > I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) Alpha on a second machine with same the > Radeon chipset > > (X300) and haven't had any KMS-related problems recently. However, Ubuntu > 10.04 ships > > with a more recent version of that driver (6.12.99+git20100126) so I > think it might > > be necessary to update the driver as well. > > > > Yes, KMS cannot be enabled in current 6.12 packages, we need a snapshot > of git master. I am thinking of working on this in the next days and > upload it to experimental. > > Last time I tried, I had some problems with the radeon kernel driver > being loaded too late (see [1]). What do you use on Ubuntu in > /etc/modprobe.d/ or on the kernel command line ? > > Brice > > [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25607 > > Ubuntu is putting radeon.ko (+drm.ko+ttm.ko+drmkmshelper.ko) to initrd and loading it early in the boot. I don't know the details how it is archived. Reason for putting radeon.ko to initrd is to get flicker free booting with splash screen.
