[Bug 89808] [Radeon 9600 r300] Xorg fails with radeonfb and KMS

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89808

Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net> changed:

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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |NOTOURBUG

--- Comment #4 from Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net> ---
(In reply to Chris Bainbridge from comment #3)
> I retested and it isn't an actual hang. It is this issue:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=762047

So it's a lightdm bug, resolving accordingly.


> - With radeonfb and KMS, dmesg shows:
> 
> [    4.292750] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
> [    4.292866] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled.
> 
> This is confusing given that KMS isn't enabled. It would be more informative
> to print a warning like "KMS disabled because you have radeonfb enabled".

This message is printed by the radeon driver, which I'm not sure has that
information.


> - Is there any point in having CONFIG_FB_RADEON on a modern kernel?

Yes, e.g. radeon KMS doesn't support suspend/resume yet on Apple PowerPC
laptops.

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