On 23.09.2014 00:25, Bill Chatfield wrote:
If I understand this correctly, then one of the defects in this situation is that the old radeonfb, nouveaufb, etc fb device drivers are still being compiled into the kernel. This shouldn't happen if they're not really supported by the rest of the system. I could file a bug in that regard, if that is the right thing to do. There is a file that attempts to blacklist all the old <cardname>fb drivers, but since they are not loadable modules, this fails.
You'd have to discuss that with the kernel package maintainers.
I have determined that the reason why gdm and gnome will not run is because they require an accelerated driver, which radeonfb does not support. So I either have to use radeonfb with xfce or get the radeon/drm to work so I can run gnome.
Unfortunately, the upsream Mesa r300 driver currently doesn't work correctly on big endian hosts. That would need to be fixed before you can run gnome-shell.
So I'm afraid there's no obvious 'right thing to do', it's more a 'pick your poison' kind of situation.
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