On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 19:15 +0000, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 01:12:34PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 09:38 -0500, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > > > > I would like to point to bug #353865: > > > * #353865: [ati/radeon] Fails to start up with DRI enabled because > > > driver is incompatible with 2.4 kernel DRM since 6.9 > > > Package: xserver-xorg (xserver-xorg 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4); Severity: > > > important; Reported by: Simon Woodward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 44 days > > > old. > > > > > > I got hit by this bug some day ago: if you happen to have a radeon card > > > that has (free) DRI support and use 2.4.27 on sarge, the upgrade will > > > cause xdm to display a black screen after reboot and no way to get a > > > local console. Since this includes cards advertised at sarge time as the > > > best cards with DFSG-free DRI drivers, this is problematic. > > > > If someone could kindly let us know the version of the radeon DRM in the > > 2.4.27 kernel, we could bump the DRM version requirement in the radeon X > > driver to something above that to avoid this problem. > > Any progress on this ?
Yes, upstream xf86-video-ati no longer enables the DRI with radeon DRM <= 1.7 as of 6.6.1. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://tungstengraphics.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer