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Bug#595767: Won't load hardware acceleration after system start



Hi Ivan,

Ivan Vilata i Balaguer <ivan@selidor.net> (05/10/2010):
> As I indicated in #587999, to enable DRI I need to:
> 
> 1. Set ``options radeon modeset=0`` in
>    /etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf so that radeonfb doesn't use KMS
>    and udev can create /dev/dri/card0.
> 
> 2. Install firmware-linux-nonfree which contains the Radeon firmware
>    somehow needed by the X server to enable DRI.
> 
> xserver-xorg-video-radeon already suggests firmware-linux (which
> depends on firmware-linux-nonfree), but the
> /etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf file it installs may need to set
> ``modeset=0`` instead of ``modeset=1``.

Please install 2.6.32 kernel from sid, boot it with KMS enabled, and
send both kernel & X logs so that we can determine why DRI doesn't
work out of the box in that case.

Mraw,
KiBi.

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