On 19 March 2010 00:19, Cassiano Leal <cassianol...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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...
Well, the solution is very simple: upgrade your xserver-xorg-video-radeon to the latest version (1:6.12.192-1). That should do it! Writing from a DRI2 enabled X server here. HTH Cheers, Cassiano Leal -- 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/27310d2c1003201414o380d8da5lfe458f0c78925...@mail.gmail.com