Re: radeonkms kernel module are not loaded automatically

[Robert Millan <rmh@debian.org>]

On 05/12/2013 02:14, Steven Chamberlain wrote:
> Maybe that means users without the non-free microcode or with
> unsupported cards, lose functionality (I'll need to do more testing
> to find out the extent of this).  But at least it falls back to vesa,
> something that works.

Actually, I just noticed that in WITHOUT_SOURCELESS builds radeon.ko
isn't provided at all. There's only radeonkms.ko, and it seems to work
(somewhat, i.e. no 3D acceleration) without the non-free firmware.

So it seems the choice is clear:

- With Debian kernel builds, "radeonkms" is the only option.

- With upstream kernel builds, "radeonkms" is preferred to "radeon".

So... let's always use "radeonkms" then?

-- 
Robert Millan