> On 9/14/14, André Silva <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, CONFIG_DRM_RADEON includes KMS by default, so > CONFIG_DRM_RADEON_KMS existence doesn't make sense.
> I suggest buy NV50 family that were tested on Parabola and works well. > > [0]: http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/CodeNames/#nv50familytesla Well, I am kind of income-less right now, can not afford new expenses. BTW, here is the dmesg and lsmod output from Arch (open-soure driver but I guess with binary-blob in kernel), gNewSense (totally free and works great with radeon) and PARABOLA (free like gNewSense but booting and X issues). Boh gNewSense and Arch dmesg outputs have one common lin: fb0: radeondrmfb frame buffer device PARABOLA does not have this. I think this is what causing the X failure. Any idea why PARABOLA does not have it when gNewSense has ? gNewSense user@gnewsense:~$ dmesg | grep radeon [ 34.072937] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled. [ 34.073123] radeon 0000:01:05.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 [ 34.073128] radeon 0000:01:05.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 34.074674] [drm] radeon: Initializing kernel modesetting. [ 34.076936] [drm] radeon: 256M of VRAM memory ready [ 34.076937] [drm] radeon: 512M of GTT memory ready. [ 34.076960] [drm] radeon: irq initialized. [ 34.077483] radeon_cp.0: Missing Free firmware [ 34.077515] platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: requesting /*(DEBLOBBED)*/ [ 34.081481] radeon 0000:01:05.0: disabling GPU acceleration [ 34.081521] radeon 0000:01:05.0: ffff88012ae30600 unpin not necessary [ 34.081523] radeon 0000:01:05.0: ffff88012ae30600 unpin not necessary [ 34.218098] fb0: radeondrmfb frame buffer device [ 34.218103] [drm] Initialized radeon 2.0.0 20080528 for 0000:01:05.0 on minor 0 user@gnewsense:~$ lsmod | grep radeon radeon 573884 1 ttm 39906 1 radeon drm_kms_helper 20337 1 radeon drm 142864 3 radeon,ttm,drm_kms_helper i2c_algo_bit 4209 1 radeon i2c_core 15787 5 radeon,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_piix4,i2c_algo_bit Arch ----------------------------------------- [ 2.923744] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled. [ 2.924865] radeon 0000:01:05.0: VRAM: 512M 0x00000000C0000000 - 0x00000000DFFFFFFF (512M used) [ 2.924867] radeon 0000:01:05.0: GTT: 512M 0x00000000A0000000 - 0x00000000BFFFFFFF [ 2.925012] [drm] radeon: 512M of VRAM memory ready [ 2.925013] [drm] radeon: 512M of GTT memory ready. [ 2.925108] [drm] radeon: power management initialized [ 2.931419] radeon 0000:01:05.0: WB enabled [ 2.931422] radeon 0000:01:05.0: fence driver on ring 0 use gpu addr 0x00000000a0000c00 and cpu addr 0xffff8800ab34cc00 [ 2.931450] [drm] radeon: irq initialized. [ 2.995852] fbcon: radeondrmfb (fb0) is primary device [ 3.019107] radeon 0000:01:05.0: fb0: radeondrmfb frame buffer device [ 3.019108] radeon 0000:01:05.0: registered panic notifier [ 3.030113] [drm] Initialized radeon 2.39.0 20080528 for 0000:01:05.0 on minor 0 lsmod | grep radeon radeon 1376042 1 hwmon 12930 2 k10temp,radeon i2c_algo_bit 12744 1 radeon drm_kms_helper 49262 1 radeon ttm 73743 1 radeon drm 258005 4 ttm,drm_kms_helper,radeon i2c_core 50152 5 drm,i2c_piix4,drm_kms_helper,i2c_algo_bit,radeon PARABOLA [ 2.606264] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled. [ 2.607076] radeon 0000:01:05.0: VRAM: 512M 0x00000000C0000000 - 0x00000000DFFFFFFF (512M used) [ 2.607078] radeon 0000:01:05.0: GTT: 512M 0x00000000A0000000 - 0x00000000BFFFFFFF [ 2.607273] [drm] radeon: 512M of VRAM memory ready [ 2.607274] [drm] radeon: 512M of GTT memory ready. [ 2.607364] radeon 0000:01:05.0: Fatal error during GPU init [ 2.607394] [drm] radeon: finishing device. [ 2.609044] [drm] radeon: ttm finalized [ 2.609178] radeon: probe of 0000:01:05.0 failed with error -22 lsmod | grep radeon radeon 1324826 0 hwmon 3153 2 k10temp,radeon i2c_algo_bit 5480 1 radeon drm_kms_helper 35720 1 radeon ttm 66977 1 radeon drm 242043 3 ttm,drm_kms_helper,radeon i2c_core 25400 5 drm,i2c_piix4,drm_kms_helper,i2c_algo_bit,radeon _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.parabolagnulinux.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
