Bug#648598: Gnome3: complete system freeze, fallback OK

[Alex Deucher]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Joost Kraaijeveld
<J.Kraaijeveld at askesis.nl> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 09:15 -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
>> I would suggest using KMS rather than UMS.  When you switch to KMS,
>> I'd also suggest using the r600 gallium 3D driver and removing the
>> Virtual line from your xorg.conf.
> Ah, there is an error in the KMS radeon-kms.conf file: when it crashed
> the (now commented out) "options radeon modeset=1" was active. I had to
> disable that to be able to use the machine and file the bug. Sorry about
> the confusion.
>
> Further, is there a difference between the xserver-xorg-video-radion
> driver and the "r600 gallium driver" and if so, what is the Debian
> package for that? I did notice that glxinfo did say it was using gallium
> 0.4. Would that mean that I was using the right driver?

I'm not familiar with the debian packages.  The r600 gallium driver is
the 3D OpenGL driver. xorg-video-radeon is the Xorg ddx(2D, Xv,
xrandr, etc.).  If glxinfo says gallium 0.4 on RV670 that is correct.

Alex

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