Re: radeonkms kernel module are not loaded automatically

2013-12-17 Thread Robert Millan
On 05/12/2013 02:14, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > The radeonkms kernel module was not (auto)loaded. That's because we lack kldxref / linker.hints. I don't have time atm but I'll probably get those added later today or maybe tomorrow. -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ

Re: radeonkms kernel module are not loaded automatically

2013-12-17 Thread Robert Millan
On 05/12/2013 02:14, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > Maybe that means users without the non-free microcode or with > unsupported cards, lose functionality (I'll need to do more testing > to find out the extent of this). But at least it falls back to vesa, > something that works. Actually, I just noti

Re: radeonkms kernel module are not loaded automatically

2013-12-04 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 00:49, Robert Millan wrote: > On 05/12/2013 00:08, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > > I reverted to unpatched libdrm2/2.4.49-2, and so on boot when lightdm > > started, Xorg detects no modesetting and it falls back automatically to > > the vesa driver. (Seemed quite fast and usable, actually). > >

Re: radeonkms kernel module are not loaded automatically

2013-12-04 Thread Robert Millan
On 05/12/2013 00:08, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > I reverted to unpatched libdrm2/2.4.49-2, and so on boot when lightdm > started, Xorg detects no modesetting and it falls back automatically to > the vesa driver. (Seemed quite fast and usable, actually). Why vesa? > This is exactly the kind of fa

Re: radeonkms kernel module are not loaded automatically

2013-12-04 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 19:53, Robert Millan wrote: > On 04/12/2013 10:49, Robert Millan wrote: > > Most likely has to do with -DWITHOUT_SOURCELESS option in debian/rules, > > which removes the non-free firmware. It wouldn't work at all without the microcode. I'd copied it already into the appropriate /lib/modules/*/

Re: radeonkms kernel module are not loaded automatically

2013-12-04 Thread Robert Millan
On 04/12/2013 02:39, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > Yes, that works, thanks! Excellent! If we can sort out the other problems you mention, I can try to get this into 10.0. > With Debian svn258623-1 and your patch implementing the sysctl, > firmware modules available, and whether libdrm2 hack is used

Re: radeonkms kernel module are not loaded automatically

2013-12-03 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 22:15, Robert Millan wrote: > On 03/12/2013 14:24, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > > This is probably why Konstantin's sysctl checks are a good idea, and > > the radeonkms module should try to implement them. Otherwise, there's > > no proper fallback., > > Well, this was simpler than I thought. >

Re: radeonkms kernel module are not loaded automatically

2013-12-03 Thread Robert Millan
On 03/12/2013 14:24, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > This is probably why Konstantin's sysctl checks are a good idea, and > the radeonkms module should try to implement them. Otherwise, there's > no proper fallback., Well, this was simpler than I thought. Please can you test? -- Robert Millan Inde

Re: radeonkms kernel module are not loaded automatically

2013-12-03 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 11:22, Robert Millan wrote: > http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati/files/extra-src__radeon_kms.c?revision=328711&view=markup > > Do you have any devices with these names? It's strange it worked for you > without this patch. I had that patch applied too. Without it,