On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Jeremy Henty <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 11:39:18AM -0500, Alex Deucher wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Jeremy Henty <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > I am currently happily running Xorg 7.5 on Linux kernel 2.6.35.8 >> > . If I upgrade the kernel to 2.6.36 the screen goes black >> > (even with the -retro argument) and the system locks >> > up. Ctrl-Alt-F<n> and Ctrl-Alt-Del do nothing, but >> > Alt-SysRq-r followed by Ctrl-Alt-Del reboots cleanly. >> Do you have kms enabled in your kernel config? > > On both my current kernel and the new one, grepping the config for KMS > gives: > > CONFIG_DRM_KMS_HELPER=y > # CONFIG_DRM_RADEON_KMS is not set > > Does that make sense? I generated the new kernel config with "make > oldconfig" and chose default options everywhere (except for enabling > some of the new netfilter/iptables targets). > >> Try booting with radeon.modeset=0 on the kernel command line > > No change, I'm afraid; same result, identical X server logs. > >> or make sure the radeon drm is loaded before starting X. > > My kernel in non-modular so I think that's not an issue. > > Thanks for your help, > > Jeremy Henty
Non KMS path are kind of depreciated, we don't intend to support them, you should better try enabling KMS and see if it works. If it doesn't open a bug against KMS (we will most likely ignore UMS bug) Cheers, Jerome Glisse _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: [email protected]
