Bug#528684: (no subject)

[Michel Dänzer]

On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 16:13 +0100, Brice Goglin wrote: 
> 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...

Hmm, the line

(II) [KMS] drm report modesetting isn't supported.

in the X log file indicates that drmCheckModesettingSupported() fails,
i.e. can't find some files in /sys . Alexey, what does

find /sys/bus/pci/devices/*/ -name \*controlD\*

say for you? Note that the asterisk and slash at the end of the second
term are critical, otherwise there will be no results.


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