Re: linux-2.4 deprecated
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 09:38 -0500, Bill Allombert wrote:
>
> I would like to point to bug #353865:
> * #353865: [ati/radeon] Fails to start up with DRI enabled because
> driver is incompatible with 2.4 kernel DRM since 6.9
> Package: xserver-xorg (xserver-xorg 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4); Severity:
> important; Reported by: Simon Woodward <simon@onyx.net>; 44 days
> old.
>
> I got hit by this bug some day ago: if you happen to have a radeon card
> that has (free) DRI support and use 2.4.27 on sarge, the upgrade will
> cause xdm to display a black screen after reboot and no way to get a
> local console. Since this includes cards advertised at sarge time as the
> best cards with DFSG-free DRI drivers, this is problematic.
If someone could kindly let us know the version of the radeon DRM in the
2.4.27 kernel, we could bump the DRM version requirement in the radeon X
driver to something above that to avoid this problem.
--
Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer
Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
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