On Wednesday 23 March 2011 13:34:27 Bill Longman wrote: > On 03/22/2011 11:57 PM, Mick wrote: > >> My kernel is 2.6.36-r5 gentoo-sources running on the AMD Athlon II X4 > >> machine: > >> $ zgrep RADEON /proc/config.gz > >> CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=m > >> CONFIG_DRM_RADEON_KMS=y > >> CONFIG_FB_RADEON=y > >> CONFIG_FB_RADEON_I2C=y > >> CONFIG_FB_RADEON_BACKLIGHT=y > >> # CONFIG_FB_RADEON_DEBUG is not set > >> > >> > >> Wonderfully wobbly windows once again, without widespread (and > >> unwelcomed) untimely terminations. > > > > How can you use x11-drivers/radeon-ucode (with KMS) *and* > > CONFIG_FB_RADEON=y ? > > > > On two machines of mine I end up with a blank screen if I add a > > framebuffer driver. > > I don't know, Mick. I have FB_MODE_HELPERS=y? or maybe because I have > > CONFIG_DRM_KMS_HELPER=m > CONFIG_DRM_TTM=m > > these won't kick in until the module loads. Also, I use genkernel to > build all the init stuff for me. I also have MTRR sanitizer turned on. > Here are the other kernel settings I have, again, on the Athlon II X4 > system, that could be relevant: > > CONFIG_VIDEO_OUTPUT_CONTROL=m > CONFIG_FB=y > CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID=y > CONFIG_FB_DDC=y > CONFIG_FB_BOOT_VESA_SUPPORT=y > CONFIG_FB_CFB_FILLRECT=y > CONFIG_FB_CFB_COPYAREA=y > CONFIG_FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT=y > > Now last night on my Phenom 940, I was unable to get KDE to remain > stable unless I turned on KMS. Now that system, too, is stable as far as > the half hour of testing I performed was able to show.
Just to let you know that the latest mesa-7.10.1 fixed things for me nicely. Now compositing works in KDE and E17 gives me no artifacts with OpenGL acceleration. :) -- Regards, Mick
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