Bug#595767: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: Won't load hardware acceleration after system start

[Julien Cristau]

On Mon, Sep  6, 2010 at 16:15:44 +0200, Frank Kottler wrote:

> after boot, the started GUI has no enabled hardware acceleration:
> 
> ~$ glxinfo | grep -i render
> direct rendering: Yes
> OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer
> 
> Which means, e.g., i can't start compiz.
> 
> But after killing and restarting X, everything works fine:
> 
> ~$ glxinfo | grep -i render
> direct rendering: Yes
> OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R200 (RV250 4C66) 20090101 x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL
> DRI2
> 
> IMHO, that means some part of the graphical driver is loaded too late for the
> system to detect hardware acceleration actually IS available.
> 
> Any solutuions?
> 
Send dmesg and X log from when that happens.

Cheers,
Julien
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