Bug#567999: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: Please compile with kernel-based modesetting (KMS) enabled

[Pauli Nieminen]

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin at 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.
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