Bug#656528: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: needs stricter dependency on libdrm-radeon1 and libkms1

[Michel Dänzer]

On Don, 2012-01-19 at 22:38 +0100, Ralf Neubauer wrote: 
> 
> [...] IIRC the message was:
> 
> (II) [KMS] drm report modesetting isn't supported.
> (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed because of a version mismatch.
> [dri] This chipset requires a kernel module version of 1.17.0,
> [dri] but the kernel reports a version of 2.0.0.[dri] If using legacy modesetting, upgrade your kernel.
> [dri] If using kernel modesetting, make sure your module is
> [dri] loaded prior to starting X, and that this driver was built
> [dri] with support for KMS.
> [dri] Disabling DRI.

If you do remember correctly, this must have been an older version of
xserver-xorg-video-radeon, which still allowed starting up in UMS mode
when the radeon kernel module was loaded too late.


> (II) [KMS] drm report modesetting isn't supported.
> (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed because of a version mismatch.
> [dri] This chipset requires a kernel module version of 1.17.0,
> [dri] but the kernel reports a version of 2.11.0.[dri] Make sure your module is loaded prior to starting X, and
> [dri] that this driver was built with support for KMS.
> [dri] Aborting.
> (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

This is the current version preventing that. This should only happen
once, if you try again it should work.

The question is why the radeon kernel module isn't loaded earlier by
udev for you. Usually that's due to stale configuration files
blacklisting it.


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