Public bug reported: When using radeon.modeset=1 with karmic’s -generic or -generic-pae kernel, dmesg reports the following, KMS doesn’t work and X becomes very slow.
[ 12.839397] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled. [ 12.839495] radeon 0000:01:05.0: power state changed by ACPI to D0 [ 12.839538] radeon 0000:01:05.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 [ 12.839543] radeon 0000:01:05.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 12.841385] [drm] radeon: Initializing kernel modesetting. [ 12.841389] [drm:radeon_driver_load_kms] *ERROR* Failed to initialize radeon, disabling IOCTL [ 12.841521] radeon 0000:01:05.0: PCI INT A disabled [ 12.841528] radeon: probe of 0000:01:05.0 failed with error -22 The GPU: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RS780M/RS780MN [Radeon HD 3200 Graphics] [1002:9612] Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30f1] Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 18 Region 0: Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Region 1: I/O ports at 5000 [size=256] Region 2: Memory at d2300000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Region 5: Memory at d2200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Capabilities: [a0] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable- Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000 Kernel modules: radeon ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: ion 2836 F.... pulseaudio CRDA: Error: command ['iw', 'reg', 'get'] failed with exit code 1: nl80211 not found. Card0.Amixer.info: Card hw:0 'SB'/'HDA ATI SB at 0xd2400000 irq 16' Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC268' Components : 'HDA:10ec0268,103c30f1,00100003 HDA:10573055,103c30f1,00100700' Controls : 15 Simple ctrls : 12 Date: Wed Oct 7 21:44:43 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion tx2500 Notebook PC Package: linux-image-2.6.31-12-generic 2.6.31-12.40 ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-12-generic root=UUID=cb73d396-bca3-4c05-95a2-212a4cecc0b2 ro radeon.modeset=1 quiet splash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-12.40-generic RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.21 RfKill: SourcePackage: linux Uname: Linux 2.6.31-12-generic i686 WpaSupplicantLog: XsessionErrors: (gnome-settings-daemon:2853): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2946): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed (nautilus:2898): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed (gnome-panel:2897): Gdk-WARNING **: /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.18.2/gdk/x11/gdkdrawable-x11.c:952 drawable is not a pixmap or window dmi.bios.date: 02/17/2009 dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard dmi.bios.version: F.0B dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag dmi.board.name: 30F1 dmi.board.vendor: Quanta dmi.board.version: 97.20 dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: Quanta dmi.chassis.version: N/A dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrF.0B:bd02/17/2009:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPPaviliontx2500NotebookPC:pvrRev1:rvnQuanta:rn30F1:rvr97.20:cvnQuanta:ct10:cvrN/A: dmi.product.name: HP Pavilion tx2500 Notebook PC dmi.product.version: Rev 1 dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard ** Affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 -- radeon.modeset=1 fails https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445717 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs