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

[Michel Dänzer]

On 31.07.2014 19:47, YuGiOhJCJ Mailing-List wrote:
>>>
>>> I give you my full Xorg.0.log here:
>>> http://pastebin.com/fsPBgt5P
>>>
>>> If you find an interesting line telling me what driver I am using please highlight it for me.
>>
>> The radeon driver fails to initialize because of this:
>>
>> [  1684.773] (II) [KMS] drm report modesetting isn't supported.
>>
>> Check the dmesg output for why the radeon kernel driver isn't active.
> 
> Indeed, this problem is because my radeon module is not loaded:
> $ lsmod | grep radeon
> 
> So, I load it:
> $ sudo modprobe radeon
> 
> Then after it I restart X, then I got:
> $ sudo dmesg | grep drm
> [ 5516.131529] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
> [ 5516.191147] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled.
> 
> So, it seems to be good now.

No, there should be a lot more output. I suspect the kernel is too old
to support your Kabini GPU.


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