Bug#570466: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: randomly hangs when using kms/dri2

[Michel Dänzer]

On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 11:17 +0100, Rémi Letot wrote: 
> 
> As there is never too much info, here is how I get kms (I might do
> something wrong) : I boot without X (which loads radeon without kms),
> login as root, modprobe -r radeon drm, modprobe radeon modeset=1, and
> then only start gdm. Maybe the system would react differently if radeon
> was loaded directly with kms enabled, but I don't know how to
> selectively achieve that at boot time.

You can pass

radeon.modeset=1

on the kernel command line.


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