Andreas Radke schrieb:
Am Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:21:07 +0200 schrieb Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org>:
Thomas Bächler schrieb:
Another upstream release, I want to move directly after signoff.
Last minute changes:
- Changed number of maximum serial ports to 32 - Enabled ATI KMS (if this causes problems, blame Andy, he says it's fine :D)
Working fine on x86_64, i686 will be ready soon.
Minor upstream update, the same holds again. Please sign off.
Also, announcement draft:
ATI KMS enabled in 2.6.31 kernel
Linux 2.6.31.3 has moved to core and brings a small change for ATI users: Experimental modesetting for the radeon driver is now enabled. If you have problems with the driver, add "radeon.modeset=0" to the kernel command line or add the line "options radeon modeset=0" to any modprobe.d file. If you are using catalyst, you might have to blacklist the radeon driver.
This was my suggestion:
draft:
The new kernel 2.6.31 introduces KernelModeSetting(kms) enabled by default for AMD/Ati video cards. The kernel will take over setting the proper screen resolution. You will need the xf86-video-ati driver in version 6.12.4 or later to solve most Xorg problems.
KMS will by default run in "late" mode when udev starts loading the modules. If you want kms "early" mode put "radeon" into the modules array into your /etc/mkinitcpio.conf. It has been reported that some cards will require also intel_agp module.
It's important to remove all framebuffer (e.g. radeonfb) modules from /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and all framebuffer + vga entries from the kernel append line.
It is possible your Ati card will fail in kms mode. This can be a kernel crash, Xorg not starting or Xorg starting without 3D acceleration. If you are affected by this disable KernelModeSetting at all by putting radeon.modeset=0 into the kernel append line in /boot/grub/menu.lst or the lilo configuration file.
+ the catalyst note
I'm not sure if we want to cover all options in this announcement or somewhere else (e.g. wiki). Your choice.
-Andy
As you have more experience with this ATI stuff, you could post the announce, the rest of the kernel doesn't need any announcing.