Pauli Nieminen <[email protected]> writes: retitle 569098 xserver-xorg-video-radeon: please load the radeon kernel module on demand thanks
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Andreas Rottmann <[email protected]> wrote: >> Alex Deucher <[email protected]> writes: >> >> >>>>>From your log: >>> (II) RADEON(0): GPU accel disabled or not working, using shadowfb for KMS >>> >>> Check your dmesg. You are probably missing the rlc ucode for the >>> interrupt controller. >>> >> Indeed. I've now downloaded and installed the ucode from >> http://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/radeon_ucode/ as in indicated by >> Bug #565437. However I still get the same results from xvinfo and >> mplayer. >> > > Kernel modules is not loaded before X starts so wrong code path is > selected for KMS kernel. You can try > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg.drivers.ati/12853 > patch to make xserver load radeon before checking if KMS is supported. > Thanks! Loading the radeon module at boot solved this issue, as well as a blank-screen problem that occured when starting X -- the screen would be completely black, and only a unplug/replug of the (LCD) monitor would fix it. Regards, Rotty -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
