Am Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:08:30 -0500
schrieb "David C. Rankin"
Guys,
I almost had a heartattack tonight when I updated my laptop and X died. I though "oh no, here we go again -- the intel story all over again..."
So far performance is fine with the new setup. To be honest, I don't even know what driver is being used at the moment (I haven't had time to check. I thought I would get this post out in case some other radeonhd user is freaking out after update). I have captured the following information and I'm making it available to the devs if anyone is interested in what happened here. This laptop is an old Toshiba P205d (Radeon RS690M graphics card). The information I saved is: (hostname is alchemy)
From what this site http://wiki.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature says, KMS seems to not yet (fully) support your card. You should add radeon.modeset=0 and probably a vga or vesafb options to your kernel parameters in /boot/grub/menu.lst. As far as I read KMS for radeonhd cards is planned for kernel 2.6.32. Heiko