Bug#528684: (no subject)

[Michel Dänzer]

On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 13:46 +0100, Alexey Feldgendler wrote: 
> On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:14:17 +0100, Brice Goglin  
> <Brice.Goglin at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
> 
> > You probably should enable KMS in your kernel.
> 
> Tried this now by passing radeon.modeset=1 to the kernel. This resulted in  
> the following failure in the X.org log:
> 
> (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed because of a version  
> mismatch.
> [dri] This chipset requires a kernel module version of 1.17.0,
> [dri] but the kernel reports a version of 2.0.0.[dri] If using legacy  
> modesetting, upgrade your kernel.
> [dri] If using kernel modesetting, make sure your module is
> [dri] loaded prior to starting X, and that this driver was built
> [dri] with support for KMS.
> [dri] Disabling DRI.

Looks like the driver wasn't built with KMS support. Maybe the build
dependencies are too lax.


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