Re: Unusable Squeeze: Can't switch off from X to consoles, neither between

[Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com>]

Pier Paolo wrote:
> 2011/2/6 Pier Paolo <pierpaolo.franco@gmail.com 
> <mailto:pierpaolo.franco@gmail.com>>
>
>     Sorry 2, wrong send 2... missing attachment
>
>     2011/2/6 Pier Paolo <pierpaolo.franco@gmail.com
>     <mailto:pierpaolo.franco@gmail.com>>
>
>         Sorry, wrong send...
>
>         2011/2/5 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org
>         <mailto:hmh@debian.org>>
>
>             On Sat, 05 Feb 2011, Camaleón wrote:
>              > On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 02:30:10 +0100, Pier Paolo wrote:
>              > > Fresh installation of squeeze here, machine AMD Athlon
>             II x2, board Asus
>              > > M4A78LT-M LE with integrated Radeon 3000.
>
>             I sure hope the discrete Radeon 3000 is supported by KMS
>             (should be, it is
>             supposed to be a r600).
>
>         It is not a discrete radeon, her's the lspci:
>         $ lspci | grep -i vga
>         01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 760G
>         [Radeon 3000]
>
>
>              > Does disabling KMS make any effect?
>
>             Actually, I'd try to make sure KMS is enabled, instead :)
>
>         KMS is reported to be not supported from drm:
>         Â $ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep KMS
>         (II) [KMS] drm report modesetting isn't supported
>
>         and:
>         $ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep '(EE)'
>         Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented,
>         (??) unknown.
>         (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed to open the DRM
>         (EE) RADEON(0): Acceleration initialization failed
>         (EE) GLX error: Can not get required symbols.
>
>         I attach my Xorg.log: it seems 3d not working (glxgears/info
>         crash per segmentation fault)
>
>             Note: you need either the Debian or Ubuntu patched kernels,
>             or you need the
>             latest longterm 2.6.35 patch level, or the latest stable
>             patchlevel for
>             2.6.36. Â Anything else is likely to simply not work (e.g.
>             latest longterm
>             2.6.32 doesn't work).
>
>         Â $ uname -srm
>         Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64
>
>         Yea! Squeeze is stuck with 2.6.32..."patched" sup., as per
>         standard distribution's kernel?
>
>         $ lsmod | grep radeon
>         radeon                573996  0
>         ttm                    39986  1 radeon
>         drm_kms_helper         20065  1 radeon
>         drm                   142359  3
>         radeon,ttm,drm_kms_helper
>         i2c_algo_bit            4225  1 radeon
>         i2c_core               15712  14
>         radeon,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit,tda1004x,saa7134_dvb,tda827x,tda8290,tuner,saa7134,i2c_piix4,v4l2_common,videodev,tveeprom
>
>         Some problems in my configuration? No xorg.conf neither
>         xorg.conf.d (Version: 1:7.5+8)
>
>         Any hints? thanks
>
>             --
>
>
> Â 
> That's the problem, i think... Custom kernel! :D
>
> $ cat /boot/config-2.6.32-5-amd64 | grep KMS
> CONFIG_DRM_KMS_HELPER=m
> # CONFIG_DRM_RADEON_KMS is not set
> # CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS is not set
>
> ...Correct me, if i'm wrong, please.
>
> Pier Paolo.


If you want an easy why to manage your x system for Debian, take a look 
at this page: http://smxi.org/docs/smxi-manual.htm I've been using it 
for ever 3 years, smxi will manage your x driver install, repos, updates 
and the kernel, while sgfxi is even simpler and will just manage x 
driver install only, ether way it's easy, it will pick the best driver 
for your system and install it for you and makes using Debian easy.
--
Jimmy Johnson

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