Bug#569098: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: Xvideo apparently not working with KMS enabled
Pauli Nieminen <suokkos@gmail.com> writes:
retitle 569098 xserver-xorg-video-radeon: please load the radeon kernel module on demand
thanks
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Andreas Rottmann <a.rottmann@gmx.at> wrote:
>> Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>
>>>>>From your log:
>>> (II) RADEON(0): GPU accel disabled or not working, using shadowfb for KMS
>>>
>>> Check your dmesg. You are probably missing the rlc ucode for the
>>> interrupt controller.
>>>
>> Indeed. I've now downloaded and installed the ucode from
>> http://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/radeon_ucode/ as in indicated by
>> Bug #565437. However I still get the same results from xvinfo and
>> mplayer.
>>
>
> Kernel modules is not loaded before X starts so wrong code path is
> selected for KMS kernel. You can try
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg.drivers.ati/12853
> patch to make xserver load radeon before checking if KMS is supported.
>
Thanks! Loading the radeon module at boot solved this issue, as well as
a blank-screen problem that occured when starting X -- the screen would
be completely black, and only a unplug/replug of the (LCD) monitor would
fix it.
Regards, Rotty
Reply to: