Re: radeonkms kernel module are not loaded automatically
On 04/12/2013 02:39, Steven Chamberlain wrote:
> Yes, that works, thanks!
Excellent! If we can sort out the other problems you mention,
I can try to get this into 10.0.
> With Debian svn258623-1 and your patch implementing the sysctl,
> firmware modules available, and whether libdrm2 hack is used or not:
> * `kldload radeonkms` fails to automatically load the drm2.ko
> prerequisite - I have to manually `kldload drm2` first, whereas
> upstream kernels just automatically loaded it from e.g.
> /lib/modules/10.0-BETA4/
> * libdrm2 detects KMS as available, Xorg uses the radeon driver
> * but graphics are *slow*, Xorg uses 100% CPU, keyboard and mouse are
> not very responsive and the same glxgears test reports 19fps
>
> I'm hoping the last point is something to do with the debugging options
> enabled in the Debian kernel builds for experimental. I'll try again
> soon with the debug options turned off, but I expect to find something
> else is causing this.
Most likely has to do with -DWITHOUT_SOURCELESS option in debian/rules,
which removes the non-free firmware.
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Robert Millan
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