Bug#528684: (no subject)

[Brice Goglin]

Michel Dänzer wrote:
> 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.
>   

He's using i386, that's what I uploaded. I see "Kernel modesetting: 
yes" at the end of my build log, and I get KMS on my r300 machines.
Strange...

Brice