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Re: KMS

On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 18:59 +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: 
> * Michel Dänzer [100406 12:42 +0200]
> > On Mon, 2010-04-05 at 05:41 +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: 
> > > 
> > > The acceleration of the framebuffer consoles is much slower than with
> > > radeonfb. Why?
> > 
> > radeondrmfb doesn't have any acceleration yet.
> 
> Will there be accleration in the future?

Possibly.


> > > The bootlogo has gone. Why? The bootprocess starts to be shown when
> > > drm is loaded.
> > 
> > radeondrmfb probably initializes too late for the logo to appear. Do you
> > load the radeon module from the initrd or later?
> 
> I dislike initrd images. I tried to compile radeon and drm directly
> in the kernel with the result of  black screen booting....

Most likely you forgot to build in the firmware as well. I've been using
KMS this way ever since I fixed it to work on my PowerBook.


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