From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kertesz Laszlo Subject: Re: 15-rc1: radeon modesetting fails Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 11:32:29 +0300 Message-ID: <534E401D.8030805@gmail.com> References: <20140415070204.GA4806@pd.tnic> <534CFBD7.3070604@amd.com> <20140415120740.GA8306@nazgul.tnic> <534D677C.6080407@gmail.com> <20140415172702.GC4826@pd.tnic> <534D743B.8010705@gmail.com> <20140415180735.GG4826@pd.tnic> <534DA97E.8070505@gmail.com> <20140415224850.GA12892@pd.tnic> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-ee0-f50.google.com (mail-ee0-f50.google.com [74.125.83.50]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DD1E6EA26 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 01:32:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-ee0-f50.google.com with SMTP id c13so8416309eek.23 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 01:32:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20140415224850.GA12892@pd.tnic> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dri-devel-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org Sender: "dri-devel" To: Borislav Petkov , "Deucher, Alexander" Cc: "Koenig, Christian" , Maling list - DRI developers , lkml List-Id: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:32:56PM +0000, Deucher, Alexander wrote: >> Turning off modesetting basically disables the driver. > > Well, in my case, I was using the radeon.modeset=0 variant to rule out > issues in x.org. And in my case x.org did start still, albeit with a > jacked-up resolution. > > But in Laszlo's case, x.org gets "puzzled" too. > Maybe your distro's xorg has some generic vga fallback method. I am not aware that mine (Debian Testing) has one. BTW I use Debian Testing (xfce) and glamor (compiled from git) so i need a specific xorg.conf.