Bug#595767: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: Won't load hardware acceleration after system start

[Alex Deucher]

On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep  6, 2010 at 16:15:44 +0200, Frank Kottler wrote:
>
>> after boot, the started GUI has no enabled hardware acceleration:
>>
>> ~$ glxinfo | grep -i render
>> direct rendering: Yes
>> OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer
>>
>> Which means, e.g., i can't start compiz.
>>
>> But after killing and restarting X, everything works fine:
>>
>> ~$ glxinfo | grep -i render
>> direct rendering: Yes
>> OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R200 (RV250 4C66) 20090101 x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL
>> DRI2
>>
>> IMHO, that means some part of the graphical driver is loaded too late for the
>> system to detect hardware acceleration actually IS available.
>>
>> Any solutuions?


Make sure the radeon drm is loaded before you start X.

Alex

>>
> Send dmesg and X log from when that happens.
>
> Cheers,
> Julien
>
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