Bug#570490: linux-image-2.6.32-2-amd64: cannot unload radeon with KMS enabled

[Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz>]

On 26 February 2010 17:23, Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 01:54:52PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 09:56:53 +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote:
>>
>> > When kms is enabled the radeon module cannot be unloaded. rmmod
>> > complains that the module is busy while the X server is not running.
>> >
>> > This is different from my experience with intel KMS and quite annoying.
>> >
>> err, it's exactly the same with i915.  You can't unload it before
>> unbinding the console.  Anyway, I think this bug can be closed with
>> 2.6.32-9, which turns VT_HW_CONSOLE_BINDING on.
>
> Michal, 2.6.32-9 is in unstable now. Can you please retest?
>

I don't see any difference. It doesn't just work. If I am supposed to
rebind the vgacon driver manually then I have no idea how.

Is this documented somewhere?

I tried to restore my setup with radeonfb but it no longer loads for
me automatically and I found there is no documentation whatsoever for
radeonfb :-S

Thanks

Michal