Bug#587722: Additional problems

[Pietro Battiston <me@pietrobattiston.it>]

Il giorno dom, 05/09/2010 alle 12.22 +0200, Michel Dänzer ha scritto:
> On Sam, 2010-09-04 at 12:35 +0200, Pietro Battiston wrote: 
> [...]
> 
> > (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed because of a version
> > mismatch.
> > [dri] This chipset requires a kernel module version of 1.17.0,
> > [dri] but the kernel reports a version of 2.0.0.[dri] If using legacy
> > modesetting, upgrade your kernel.
> > [dri] If using kernel modesetting, make sure your module is
> > [dri] loaded prior to starting X, and that this driver was built
> > [dri] with support for KMS.
> 
> Something goes wrong on your system, such that the radeon kernel module
> enables KMS but the X radeon driver thinks it's not enabled, resulting
> in both drivers accessing the hardware independently. This can't work
> properly.
> 
> While this is probably some kind of system setup/configuration issue,
> the X driver should probably bail in this situation...
> 

Indeed, the problem disappears if I add "radeon" in /etc/modules.

However, I really can't remember doing any manual configuration of
X/KMS.

In #debian-x, someone suggested that the problem may lie in udev,
failing to load "radeon" in time.

I hope I'll find the time to try from scratch in a new Debian
installation.

Pietro