Am I using the "ati" or "vesa" driver?

YuGiOhJCJ Mailing-List yugiohjcj-mailinglist at laposte.net
Thu Jul 31 03:47:51 PDT 2014


> >> [...]
> >>> So, I think that I am using the "vesa" Xorg driver for generic VESA video
> >>> cards instead of the "ati" video driver.
> >>>
> >>> How to be sure about that?
> >>
> >> Have a look at Xorg logs, usually /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
> >> -- 
> > 
> > Yeah, but it seems to load both drivers (and other drivers too):
> > $ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep LoadModule
> > [...]
> > [  1684.745] (II) LoadModule: "ati"
> > [  1684.746] (II) LoadModule: "radeon"
> > [  1684.748] (II) LoadModule: "vesa"
> > [  1684.749] (II) LoadModule: "fbdev"
> > [...]
> > 
> > I give you my full Xorg.0.log here:
> > http://pastebin.com/fsPBgt5P
> > 
> > If you find an interesting line telling me what driver I am using please highlight it for me.
> 
> The radeon driver fails to initialize because of this:
> 
> [  1684.773] (II) [KMS] drm report modesetting isn't supported.
> 
> Check the dmesg output for why the radeon kernel driver isn't active.

Indeed, this problem is because my radeon module is not loaded:
$ lsmod | grep radeon

So, I load it:
$ sudo modprobe radeon

Then after it I restart X, then I got:
$ sudo dmesg | grep drm
[ 5516.131529] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[ 5516.191147] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled.

So, it seems to be good now.

But I think I am again using "vesa" drivers because:
$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep LoadModule
[  6993.222] (II) LoadModule: "glx"
[  6993.249] (II) LoadModule: "ati"
[  6993.251] (II) LoadModule: "radeon"
[  6993.258] (II) LoadModule: "vesa"
[  6993.260] (II) LoadModule: "modesetting"
[  6993.267] (II) LoadModule: "fbdev"
[  6993.298] (II) LoadModule: "vbe"
[  6993.299] (II) LoadModule: "int10"
[  6993.370] (II) LoadModule: "ddc"
[  6993.476] (II) LoadModule: "shadow"
[  6993.477] (II) LoadModule: "fb"
[  6993.480] (II) LoadModule: "int10"
[  6995.208] (II) LoadModule: "evdev"

This is my new full Xorg.0.log file:
http://pastebin.com/krvwi0rd

Do you see why I am on "vesa" instead of "ati"?


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