Bug#585911: display breaks on Lenovo W500 with KMS

Michel Dänzer daenzer at debian.org
Fri Oct 1 08:25:37 PDT 2010


On Fre, 2010-10-01 at 11:12 -0400, Brent S. Elmer Ph.D. wrote: 
> I got the latest linux-source 2.6.32 from sid and rebuilt my kernel.  I
> removed my /etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf which had options radeon
> modeset=0.  I can boot with the kernel and X seems to be fine.  When I
> look in Xorg.0.log I see the following line:
> 
> [KMS] drm report modesetting isn't supported.
> 
> So, I'm not sure if KMS is being used or not.

It means the X driver isn't using KMS. Please provide the full
Xorg.0.log and (at least the relevant) dmesg output from this test.


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