Bug#585911: display breaks on Lenovo W500 with KMS

[Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.]

I set modeset=1 explicitly.  It still said modesetting isn't supported
in the Xorg.0.log.  I got linux-image-2.6.32-5-686-bigmen from sid
(2.6.32-24) and rebooted and KMS worked.  I did get 4 or 5 error
messages first thing in the boot messages at the top of the screen.  I
couldn't write them all down before they scrolled off.  They started out
something like this:

drm:[atom_op_jump] *ERROR* atombios stuck in loop for more than 1 sec
...

So, I don't know if setting modeset=1 explicitly is actually required or
if the sid kernel was all that was required.

Brent

On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 19:36 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Fri, Oct  1, 2010 at 13:04:54 -0400, Brent S. Elmer Ph.D. wrote:
> 
> > Okay, I installed linux-image-2.6.32-5-686-bigmen from squeeze version
> > 2.6.32-23 and rebooted into it.  Here are my dmesg and Xorg.0.log from
> > that.  It still has the line [KMS] drm report modesetting isn't
> > supported.
> > 
> You need to restore /etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf to say 'options
> radeon modeset=1'.
> 
> Cheers,
> Julien

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