[arch-general] Kernel 2.6.32 and Radeon KMS

[Gabriel Morrison Lima Dantas]

Removing radeon from initramfs and putting it in MODULES section of rc.conf
solves the problem.

2009/12/5 Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org>

> Gabriel Morrison Lima Dantas schrieb:
>
>  Hi, I installed kernel26 and kernel26-firmware from testing, and I'm
>> experiencing some problems with KMS. During system initialization, the
>> system requests the firmware radeon/R300_cp.bin, waits a couple of seconds
>> and then proceeds normal initialization. But when I log into X, DRI isn't
>> enabled. Checking dmesg, I see that the kernel couldn't load R300
>> firmware,
>> therefore disabling GPU acceleration.
>> My problem is the same of this post:
>> http://old.nabble.com/kernel-2.6.32-experiences-td26458040.html. Thomas
>> said
>> that mkinitcpio automatically inserts firmware listed in modinfo module in
>> the initramfs image. When I run modinfo radeon | grep R300, it shows me
>> 'firmware: radeon/R300_cp.bin'. So it should be available to kernel at the
>> time of requesting it, shouldn't it?
>> Has someone any idea to help solving that problem?
>>
>
> Can you remove radeon from initramfs and try in the real system? I suspect
> that the initramfs/udev firmware loader is broken - this can't be fixed
> until we dump klibc, which I don't have the time for currently.
>
>


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Gabriel Morrison