Problems Testing New Radeon Code

[Mike Lothian]

2009/5/2 Jerome Glisse <glisse at freedesktop.org>:
> On Sat, 2009-05-02 at 07:35 +0100, Mike Lothian wrote:
>> 2009/5/2 Jerome Glisse <glisse at freedesktop.org>:
>> > On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 20:59 +0100, Mike Lothian wrote:
>> >> Hi there
>> >>
>> >> I've had a few issues testing the new radeon code and rather than do
>> >> all this through comments on a blog I thought the mailing lists would
>> >> be better
>> >>
>> >> I've attached the above logs
>> >>
>> >> X doesn't start with KMS (KMS works during boot)
>> >>
>> >> with radeon.modeset=0 being passed but playing a video full screen or
>> >> activating kwin compositing makes the session unusable
>> >>
>> >> The proof attachment shows what branches and where head was at during
>> >> compile time
>> >>
>> >> Cheers
>> >>
>> >> Mike
>> >
>> > Quick guess you are missing DRI2 bits, either too old xserver (need 1.6
>> > at least) or no dri2 proto installed. Still i don't understand what
>> > you mean by radeon.modeset=0, with radeon.modeset=0 everythings should
>> > work as with no kms (ie it use old code path which should be more or
>> > less what you already have).
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Jerome Glisse
>> >
>> >
>>
>> My whole xorg stack is the latest git head my Xorg.0.log should confirm that
>>
>
> Still X tries to initialize DRI1 instead of DRI2 the cause is likely
> because Xserver is not compiled with DRI2 enabled (i thought it was
> default). I will hack ddx to fail if Xserver tries to initialize DRI1
> when in KMS mode.
>
> Cheers,
> Jerome Glisse
>
>

I'll give it another test in 2 weeks when I get back from holiday

Mike