[Mageia-dev] [changelog] cauldron core/release x11-driver-video-ati-7.0.0-2.mga3

Mon Dec 10 01:05:21 CET 2012

Anssi Hannula skrev 27.11.2012 00:08:
+> 26.11.2012 19:25, Thomas Backlund kirjoitti:
+>> tv skrev 26.11.2012 16:53:
+>>> Name        : x11-driver-video-ati         Relocations: (not relocatable)
+>>> Version     : 7.0.0                             Vendor: Mageia.Org
+>>> Release     : 2.mga3                        Build Date: Mon Nov 26 15:52:14 2012
+>>
+>> Note to all ati users...
+>>
+>> Beginning with 7.0.0 series, this driver is KMS only.
+>>
+>> so UMS mode ("nokms") is no more useful with this driver....
+>>
+>> IIRC we will also need to update display_driver_helper (and maybe drakx)
+>> to cope with this fact...
+>
+> I'll disable the hack in display_driver_helper...
+>
+> But should we now have ldetect-lst fallback to vesa on all radeon cards
+> if no fw installed ("DRIVER_NO_FIRMWARE vesa")?
+>
+> According to the kernel driver code (AFAICS, that is) it should fallback
+> to no acceleration in case of no firmware, but at least some time ago
+> that apparently didn't happen properly...
+>
+
+I think we need to fallback to vesa, as it does not matter if the kernel
+part works without firmware in ums mode, as the x11 driver wont support
+it anyway, making the x11-server start fail .
+
+--
+Thomas
+
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