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

Mon Dec 10 01:12:09 CET 2012

10.12.2012 02:05, Thomas Backlund kirjoitti:
+> 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 .
+
+I meant that AFAIK KMS should work without acceleration without firmware
+for old cards (for new cards we already default to vesa), but if this
+still doesn't work properly, we need to default to vesa for them as well.
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+