Am I using the "ati" or "vesa" driver?

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 07/30/14 12:52 PM, Linda A. Walsh wrote:
> Łukasz Maśko wrote:
>>
>>> $ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep LoadModule
>>> [...]
>>> [  1684.745] (II) LoadModule: "ati"
>>> [  1684.746] (II) LoadModule: "radeon"
>>> [  1684.748] (II) LoadModule: "vesa"
>>> [  1684.749] (II) LoadModule: "fbdev"
>>
>> You're deffinitely using the vesa driver. The radeon driver is loaded, but
>> then the vesa driver is initialized as first and it takes control over your
>> card, so finally, according to line #1700, the radeon driver is unloaded:
> ----
> Side question --
> Was it unloaded because Vesa loaded first or because the radeon driver wasn't
> able to talk to its kernel component?
>
> I.e. Does it pick drivers based on best match or first match?

It goes through in what in thinks is the best order and tries until one works.
As you can see above, it tried & failed with ati/radeon before falling back to
vesa.

-- 
	-Alan Coopersmith-              alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc