Problems with KMS on RS690

[Michel Dänzer]

On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 20:15 +0100, Mike Lothian wrote:
> 
> I'm using the latest git for the whole X stack with the experimental
> option turned on for libdrm
> 
> I've tested the latest git kernels from drm-2.6 drm-next linux-2.6 and
> a plain 2.6.30
> 
> However I can't get X to start with any of them (I've tried passing
> radeon.modeset=0 too)

Do you have logs for that too?


> [drm] radeon: kernel modesetting successfully initialized.
> [drm] Initialized radeon 2.0.0 20080528 for 0000:01:05.0 on minor 0

Everything looks fine until here. Do you see the console boot messages?

> radeon 0000:02:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0003)
> radeon 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
> radeon 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
> [drm] radeon: Initializing kernel modesetting.
> [drm:radeon_driver_load_kms] *ERROR* Failed to initialize radeon, disabling IOCTL

Oops, what happened there? Did the radeon kernel module get unloaded and
loaded again for some reason? Maybe you can try building the radeon DRM
into the kernel.


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