Re: Bug#353865: Sarge to Etch upgrade with radeon
On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 19:15 +0000, Bill Allombert wrote:
> 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 ?
Yes, upstream xf86-video-ati no longer enables the DRI with radeon DRM
<= 1.7 as of 6.6.1.
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