issues with ATI Moblity Radeon HD 5830

[Alex Deucher]

2010/2/15 Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net>:
> On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 16:47 +0100, Maróy Ákos wrote:
>>
>> (II) [KMS] drm report modesetting isn't supported.
>
> So that's actually the reverse case from what I thought - the X driver
> has KMS support, but it's not enabled in the kernel. Check dmesg for why
> the DRI (and consequently acceleration) initialization fails, maybe some
> firmware file is missing.
>
> Not sure then why VT switching to console doesn't work though.


UMS HD 5xxx (evergreen) support does not currently include
acceleration or save/restore state support.

Alex

>
>
>> ddxSigGiveUp: Closing log
>
> I still don't see any explanation for or even sign of a crash. I think
> Ubuntu's gdm has some kind of watchdog, maybe that just thinks the X
> server is taking too long to start up and kills it.
>
>
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