On 28 June 2010 10:35, Paul Ezvan wrote:

Le dimanche 27 juin 2010 à 13:19 -0500, David C. Rankin a écrit :

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Guys,

      Just updated my laptop's spare drive and something in the last set up updates, which included the kernel, really affected the radeon driver badly. It's almost like I am back running in framebuffer mode. I'm not quite sure where to start troubleshooting as I am not familiar at all with the changes kms introduced into the radeon driver soup, but I suspect that may be where the problem lies. I have no xorg.conf, so if there are config issues, it's with the default config.

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[    37.526] is imortant (WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled [    37.526] (II) RADEON(0): Acceleration disabled

Last time I had this problem with a radeon card, it was because of a missing firmware (R700rlc in my case). Maybe you should search in this direction ?

The linux-firmware package now contains all the required firmware for drivers now, IIRC.

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:15 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:

On 06/28/2010 04:44 AM, Damien Churchill wrote:

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On 28 June 2010 10:35, Paul Ezvan  wrote:

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Le dimanche 27 juin 2010 à 13:19 -0500, David C. Rankin a écrit :

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Guys,

      Just updated my laptop's spare drive and something in the last set up updates, which included the kernel, really affected the radeon driver badly. It's almost like I am back running in framebuffer mode. I'm not quite sure where to start troubleshooting as I am not familiar at all with the changes kms introduced into the radeon driver soup, but I suspect that may be where the problem lies. I have no xorg.conf, so if there are config issues, it's with the default config.

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[    37.526] is imortant (WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled [    37.526] (II) RADEON(0): Acceleration disabled

Last time I had this problem with a radeon card, it was because of a missing firmware (R700rlc in my case). Maybe you should search in this direction ?

The linux-firmware package now contains all the required firmware for drivers now, IIRC.

Thanks Paul, Damien & C. Anthony:

       At least we have narrowed it down some. I'll look for some stray firmware, but for the past 1.5 years with the same laptop, I have never needed any additional firmware for this ATI x1200 card (RS690M chip). I don't put it past being a problem with the firmware in the kernel or somewhere in the new packages.

       As part of the troubleshooting, I will probably need to downgrade to the last set of packages and kernel. What's the best way to downgrade the kernel? Is this a 'pacman -Sf' issue or a 'pacman -Uf' issue?  I still have the old kernel packages on my box that I can reinstall locally if that changes the equation any.

       Thanks for any help you can give.

-- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

So do i!BUMP

TIA。I will fix it! On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 2:04 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:

On 06/29/2010 04:34 AM, 宇钟 wrote:

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So do i!BUMP

Yes, I think you are safe. I had to rebuild the kernel init and the ATI issue seems much better.

-- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com