On 17 March 2010 15:24, Andrei Popescu <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed,17.Mar.10, 11:27:19, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: >> Hi Andrei, >> >> OK, doing >> >> modprobe -r radeon >> modprobe radeon modeset=1 >> >> using 2.6.32-3-amd64 results in a working machine which actually >> performance workplace and application switching at acceptable speed. > > Are you sure the modeset=1 is actually needed? AFAIU radeon is not > completely ready for KMS (at least not in Debian).
Now that you said that, I had not enabled KMS, but I got DRI to work without problems and with good performance. On the other hand, I think I saw something today in linux-image's changelog that said KMS was being enabled by default for radeons. Maybe a kernel upgrade would solve things once and for all. > >> Now I just have 1 error left in my XOrg.log: >> >> (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed because of a version >> mismatch. >> [dri] radeon kernel module version is 2.0.0 but version 1.17.0 or newer is >> needed. >> [dri] Disabling DRI. > > The error message is quite strange: the Xorg driver complains that a > newer kernel module is needed, but 2.0.0 should be newer than 1.17.0... True, but I do remember getting the same and being able to fix it. Sorry but I don't have access to that computer atm so I can't look for the solution... > > Regards, > Andrei Cheers, Cassiano -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/27310d2c1003182019y5413c342i2a3b7997a83f2...@mail.gmail.com
