Bug#585911: display breaks on Lenovo W500 with KMS

[Michel Dänzer]

On Fre, 2010-10-01 at 11:45 -0400, Brent S. Elmer Ph.D. wrote: 
> Here are the files you asked for.
> 
> Brent
> On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 17:25 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> > 
> 

There's no sign of KMS anywhere - is CONFIG_DRM_RADEON_KMS enabled in
your kernel build configuration?

Can't you just try the current linux-image-2.6.32-5-* package from
squeeze or sid?


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