[Dev] [Assist] Fwd: Re: Xorg Problem with Radeon

[André Silva]

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On 09/15/2014 02:00 PM, arnuld uttre wrote:
>> On 9/14/14, André Silva <emulatorman at riseup.net> wrote:
> 
>> Yes, CONFIG_DRM_RADEON includes KMS by default, so 
>> CONFIG_DRM_RADEON_KMS existence doesn't make sense.
> 
>> I suggest buy NV50 family that were tested on Parabola and works
>> well.
>> 
>> [0]:
>> http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/CodeNames/#nv50familytesla
> 
> Well, I am kind of income-less right now, can not afford new
> expenses. BTW, here is the dmesg and lsmod output from Arch
> (open-soure driver but I guess with binary-blob in kernel),
> gNewSense (totally free and works great with radeon) and PARABOLA
> (free like gNewSense but booting and X issues). Boh gNewSense and
> Arch dmesg outputs have one common lin:
> 
> fb0: radeondrmfb frame buffer device
> 
> PARABOLA does not have this. I think this is what causing the X 
> failure. Any idea why PARABOLA does not have it when gNewSense has
> ?

We have the same configuration than Arch on the config files, but with
some exceptions which aren't related to the problem [0]
I think that it is due to lack of firmware which newer kernel versions
made necessary for KMS. Remember that gNewSense uses old versions in
comparison to us.

[0]:https://lukeshu.com/git/mirror/parabola/abslibre.git/tree/libre/linux-libre/ChangeLog
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