Radeon UMS Mode

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:19:51 -0800
"Thomas D. Dean" <tomdean at speakeasy.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 21:22 +0000, akirchhoff135014 at comcast.net wrote:
> I tried various modelines - nothing seemed to work.
> 
> I kept getting could not get gamma messages.  I can relay the exact
> message later, if it would help resolve this.
> 
> I think the fix is the MSI N210-MD512D3/LP GeForce 210 card, which UPS
> delivers tomorrow!
> 

Be aware that if you installed libGL* with WITHOUT_NOUVEAU=YES in make.conf
then Xorg may get a signal 11 if you use the default configuration for
xorg-server when using nvidia-driver.  You may have done this to support
the ATI card, which I did because I was using the integrated ATI graphics
in my motherboard's chipset until recently.

I have the same MSI card as you have ordered and discovered that I had to
turn off the AIGLX option in xorg-server in order to stop the signal 11
from happening.

Of course, an option would be to remove WITHOUT_NOUVEAU=YES from make.conf
and reinstall libGL*, but I haven't tried that yet.

I'm now successfully using the card with nvidia-driver and things like
VDPAU appear to be working.  No more signal 11.

Ah yes, I also removed dri, drm and radeondrm from my kernel config.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn