Re: radeon: "This chipset requires a kernel module version of 1.17.0"

To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: przypadek <przypadek@vp.pl>, 686080@bugs.debian.org, xserver-xorg-video-radeon@packages.debian.org
Subject: Re: radeon: "This chipset requires a kernel module version of 1.17.0"
From: Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:51:32 +0200
Message-id: <[🔎] 1346165492.2924.737.camel@thor.local>
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On Die, 2012-08-28 at 07:47 -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: 
> przypadek wrote:
> 
> > I have installed linux-image-3.2.0-3-686-pae , xserver-xorg-video-radeon
> 
> What version of xserver-xorg-video-radeon do you have?
> 
> [...]
> > [dri] This chipset requires a kernel module version of 1.17.0,
> > [dri] but the kernel reports a version of 2.0.0.
> 
> It sounds like it is slightly out of date [...]

Not necessarily. The above means that KMS is enabled in the kernel, but
the X driver is using UMS. This cannot work properly. Make sure the
radeon kernel module is loaded before X starts.


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Earthling Michel Dänzer           |                   http://www.amd.com
Libre software enthusiast         |          Debian, X and DRI developer

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