Re: Radeon KMS removed from linux-image-3.2.0-4-mckinley 3.2.35-2

I think it was a mistake. I am having some graphical corruption while using Xorg on 3.2.x kernels, but I can definitely boot with KMS and interact with the console glitch-free. The issue described with the PowerPC-based laptops was that the computer hangs -- this simply doesn't happen on ia64. In later kernels, KMS+Xorg+Mesa DRI drivers work great, so even if it is set for !x86, it should be removed later. I think you should file a bug for it.

Patrick

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 6:16 AM, Émeric Maschino <emeric.maschino@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

Sorry, I was unclear!

When Ben told that "KMS is currently non-functional on most non-x86
laptops" [1], was he referring to this particular kernel version, or
more generally?
In short, should file a bug asking to enable back Radeon KMS for
current kernel 3.2.35-1 or for forthcoming > 3.2 kernels (I had no
problem with Radeon KMS enabled on Gentoo with kernel 3.5)?
BTW, bug #628972 was reported against PPC. Does it mean that Radeon
KMS was nevertheless disabled for all architectures? This sounds a
little bit overkill...

Thanks,

Emeric

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=628972#10

2013/1/13 Stephan Schreiber <info@fs-driver.org>:

> Quoting Émeric Maschino:
>
>> Back from a break, I've updated my Wheezy setup, just to discover that
>> Xorg.0.log complains that [KMS] drm report modesetting isn't
>> supported.
>> And indeed, grep KMS /boot/config-3.2.0-4-mckinley reports
>> CONFIG_DRM_RADEON_KMS is not set :-(
>> Any reason for this? I had no problem with previous
>> linux-image-3.2.0-4-mckinley 3.2.32-1 and Radeon KMS enabled.
>
>
> You can read in the changelog of linux (3.2.35-1):
> ...
> [ Ben Hutchings ]
> ...
> * [!x86] radeon: Disable DRM_RADEON_KMS, as this is still not expected to
> work (Closes: #628972)
> ...
>
>
>
>> Should I file a bug report?
>
>
> I think you should. Ask whether DRM_RADEON_KMS can be enabled again on ia64.
>
> Regards
> Stephan
>
>
>
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