Bug#567999: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: Please compile with kernel-based modesetting (KMS) enabled

[Brice Goglin]

Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon
> Version: 1:6.12.4-2
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi,
>
> since Debian testing is now shipping with Linux Kernel 2.6.32 which has mature support
> for kernel-based modesetting it would be a nice option to have KMS also enabled in the
> xorg driver to take full advantage of KMS.
>
> I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) Alpha on a second machine with same the Radeon chipset
> (X300) and haven't had any KMS-related problems recently. However, Ubuntu 10.04 ships
> with a more recent version of that driver (6.12.99+git20100126) so I think it might
> be necessary to update the driver as well.
>   

Yes, KMS cannot be enabled in current 6.12 packages, we need a snapshot
of git master. I am thinking of working on this in the next days and
upload it to experimental.

Last time I tried, I had some problems with the radeon kernel driver
being loaded too late (see [1]). What do you use on Ubuntu in
/etc/modprobe.d/ or on the kernel command line ?

Brice

[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25607