Bug#686080: radeon: "This chipset requires a kernel module version of 1.17.0"

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Die, 2012-08-28 at 08:03 -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: 
> Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Die, 2012-08-28 at 07:47 -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: 
> >> przypadek wrote:
> 
> >>> [dri] This chipset requires a kernel module version of 1.17.0,
> >>> [dri] but the kernel reports a version of 2.0.0.
> >>
> >> It sounds like it is slightly out of date [...]
> >
> > Not necessarily. The above means that KMS is enabled in the kernel, but
> > the X driver is using UMS.
> 
> Good catch.  Sorry for the nonsense.
> 
> >                            This cannot work properly. Make sure the
> > radeon kernel module is loaded before X starts.
> 
> Now that you mention it, I seem to remember this coming up before
> once (for a different reason).  The X server message is not very
> clear; is that fixable?

It was improved upstream in the meantime, but current upstream no longer
supports UMS anyway.


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