On 04/08/2015 04:02 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Control: reopen -1 > > On 04/08/2015 09:51 PM, Milan Kupcevic wrote: >> In Wheezy and in Jessie RC1 radenfb was compiled in the kernel >> itself while debian installer worked fine on this machine. > > Well, yes. As you could see from the bug report you linked above, > compiling radeonfb into the kernel broke X on basically all Radeon > cards. > It seems that radeonfb was compiled into the kernel since the dawn of time. > The reason is that the radeon KMS module does not work once radoenfb > has been loaded once. Even if you unload radeonfb later, the radeon > module will still refuse to work meaning X will not be usable. > This is good to know. > If you want to use X, you **have** to use the radeon KMS driver as > the xf86-video-radeon driver does no longer support UMS modesetting > which means no matter what you do, you will **never** be able to run > X once radeonfb is loaded until next reboot. > Okay. >> Neither radeon nor radeonfb driver is included in RC2 debian >> installer. > > Well, yes, we forgot to include radeon, true. > [...] > >> Whether we want to include radeonfb module or radeon KMS module in >> debian installer is question open to discussion. > > Well, I think this can be answered straight-forward: radeonfb is the > wrong solution as radeonfb does not support X which means you can use > the text-based installer only. But I guess you never tested that as > you stated in your bug report. > > The proper fix for your problem is not to revert my previous fix but > to use the proper driver, thus reopening. > There was no "my previous fix," just reporting about the state of the things in RC1 and RC2. I'm trying to help as I have access to more than a few power and powerpc machines. As for the "proper driver," I'm all for it. We are lucky to have you around to take care of these issues. I'm looking forward to download and install final Jessie release on many machines with no problems at all. Milan
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