radeon, KMS(?), segfault

[Kevin Oberman]

On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bris.ac.uk>wrote:

> amd64 laptop at r262356.
>
> card: 'RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series]
>
> vgapci0 at pci0:1:5:0:     class=0x030000 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x791f1002
> rev=0x00
> hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI'
>     device     = 'RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series]'
>     class      = display
>     subclass   = VGA
>     bar   [10] = type Prefetchable Memory, range 64, base 0xc0000000, size
> 13421
> 7728, enabled
>     bar   [18] = type Memory, range 64, base 0xd0200000, size 65536,
> enabled
>     bar   [20] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0x4000, size 256, enabled
>     bar   [24] = type Memory, range 32, base 0xd0300000, size 1048576,
> enabled
>     cap 01[50] = powerspec 2  supports D0 D1 D2 D3  current D0
>     cap 05[80] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit
>
> I've build world with and then without
> WITH_NEW_XORG, and in both cases I get
> on X -configure:
>
> For newer Radeon cards you need WITH_NEW_XORG and WITH_GALLIUM. These
newer cards don't support UMS, and so a system built with WWITH_NEW_XORG
dies when it can't get KMS.

-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com