Sarge to Etch upgrade with radeon
On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 01:12:34PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 09:38 -0500, Bill Allombert wrote:
> >
> > I would like to point to bug #353865:
> > * #353865: [ati/radeon] Fails to start up with DRI enabled because
> > driver is incompatible with 2.4 kernel DRM since 6.9
> > Package: xserver-xorg (xserver-xorg 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4); Severity:
> > important; Reported by: Simon Woodward <simon@onyx.net>; 44 days
> > old.
> >
> > I got hit by this bug some day ago: if you happen to have a radeon card
> > that has (free) DRI support and use 2.4.27 on sarge, the upgrade will
> > cause xdm to display a black screen after reboot and no way to get a
> > local console. Since this includes cards advertised at sarge time as the
> > best cards with DFSG-free DRI drivers, this is problematic.
>
> If someone could kindly let us know the version of the radeon DRM in the
> 2.4.27 kernel, we could bump the DRM version requirement in the radeon X
> driver to something above that to avoid this problem.
Any progress on this ? How can we get that version ?
kernel-source-2.4.27/drivers/char/drm/radeon.h has:
#define DRIVER_NAME "radeon"
#define DRIVER_DESC "ATI Radeon"
#define DRIVER_DATE "20020828"
#define DRIVER_MAJOR 1
#define DRIVER_MINOR 7
#define DRIVER_PATCHLEVEL 0
Would that do ? Something else ?
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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