Problems Testing New Radeon Code

[Jerome Glisse]

On Sat, 2009-05-02 at 07:35 +0100, Mike Lothian wrote:
> 2009/5/2 Jerome Glisse <glisse at freedesktop.org>:
> > On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 20:59 +0100, Mike Lothian wrote:
> >> Hi there
> >>
> >> I've had a few issues testing the new radeon code and rather than do
> >> all this through comments on a blog I thought the mailing lists would
> >> be better
> >>
> >> I've attached the above logs
> >>
> >> X doesn't start with KMS (KMS works during boot)
> >>
> >> with radeon.modeset=0 being passed but playing a video full screen or
> >> activating kwin compositing makes the session unusable
> >>
> >> The proof attachment shows what branches and where head was at during
> >> compile time
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >>
> >> Mike
> >
> > Quick guess you are missing DRI2 bits, either too old xserver (need 1.6
> > at least) or no dri2 proto installed. Still i don't understand what
> > you mean by radeon.modeset=0, with radeon.modeset=0 everythings should
> > work as with no kms (ie it use old code path which should be more or
> > less what you already have).
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Jerome Glisse
> >
> >
> 
> My whole xorg stack is the latest git head my Xorg.0.log should confirm that
> 

Still X tries to initialize DRI1 instead of DRI2 the cause is likely
because Xserver is not compiled with DRI2 enabled (i thought it was
default). I will hack ddx to fail if Xserver tries to initialize DRI1
when in KMS mode.

Cheers,
Jerome Glisse