Re: How to activate KMS with a radeon video card on powerpc?
On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 00:31 +0100, Cédric Boutillier wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering if anyone managed to activate the Kernel Modesetting on
> a powerpc with a radeon video card, and if yes, what are the
> instructions.
Yes, I've been using KMS on my PowerBook ever since I fixed it to work
on it. However, beware that the code necessary for sleep to work hasn't
been ported from radeonfb to KMS yet.
> I have an Apple iBook G4 12" mid2005, with a ATI Radeon r300 video card
> (ATI Technologies Inc M11 NV [FireGL Mobility T2e] (rev 80)), and I did
> not succeed. What I tried is the following:
>
> - add radeon.modeset=1 to the kernel options in the /etc/yaboot.conf
> file and run ybin -v
> - ensure that radeon module is loaded soon enough in the boot process by
> adding radeon in the /etc/modules file
>
> I am using Debian unstable, with some packages of experimental. The
> relevant packages seem to be
> - linux-image-2.6.32-3-powerpc kernel
> - libdrm2/libdrm-radeon1 2.4.18-3
> - mesa packages 7.7-4
> - xserver-xorg-video-radeon 1:6.12.192-1 (built from source package in
> experimental)
>
> Everything seems to go well during the boot process, since I see in the
> syslog:
> [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled.
Can you provide the full dmesg, or at least the output of
dmesg|grep -e drm -e radeon
IIRC the above message may appear even if radeonfb prevents KMS from
really being active.
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