[arch-general] Last Updates w/kernel 2.6.33.4-1 -> 2.6.34-2 broke radeon driver for RS690M cards

[Damien Churchill]

On 28 June 2010 10:35, Paul Ezvan <paul at ezvan.fr> wrote:
> Le dimanche 27 juin 2010 à 13:19 -0500, David C. Rankin a écrit :
>> 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.
>>
> [...]
>>
>> [    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.