On 07.12.2011 12:01, Thierry Vignaud wrote: > On 3 December 2011 19:54, zezinho <lists.jjo...@free.fr> wrote: >> Le samedi 3 décembre 2011 00:06:31, Anssi Hannula a écrit : >>> BTW, shouldn't we regenerate initrds when installing radeon-firmware for >>> the first time? >> >> Yes : I had this problem testing Alpha1 DVD on a RV100 hardware. >> >> - no firmware installed as nonfree repo is not enabled >> - no X after install (I should have tested in the installer?) >> - installed radeon firmware, reboot, still no X >> - updated initrd, then it works > > Anssi maybe should we alter drakx-kbd-mouse-x11 & harddrake: > we could run modinfo on the module for the card, check whether > the reported firmware in the output are available or not, and > enable kms accordingly (with defaulting to vesa instead of radeon > on r700+ due to the faillure to run without KMS support)
Here you say r700+, and on bug #3466 you say r600+, but according to http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeatureUMS they should work with UMS. Do you have some additional information on this that indicates we should disallow UMS on r600 or r700 as well? -- Anssi Hannula