KMS

[Dave Airlie]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:31 AM, James Cloos<cloos at jhcloos.com> wrote:
>> can you post the output of dmesg after loading the radeon drm?
>
> There is no printk() output when X starts.  I used to get:
>
> Aug 19 05:21:55 [kernel] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: AGP 2.0 bridge
> Aug 19 05:21:55 [kernel] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: putting AGP V2 device into 4x mode
> Aug 19 05:21:55 [kernel] radeonfb 0000:01:00.0: putting AGP V2 device into 4x mode
> Aug 19 05:21:55 [kernel] [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map
> Aug 19 05:21:55 [kernel] [drm] Loading R100 Microcode
> Aug 19 05:21:55 [kernel] [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs
>
> but now get nothing since I turned on CONFIG_DRM_RADEON_KMS and
> recompiled ati with enable-kms (and recompiled everything else, too).
>

sounds like you are missing fbcon support maybe.

CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE.

Dave.