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On 03/04/12 03:16, Michael Hampicke wrote: |
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>> However, now that the firmware loading problem is fixed, my screen still |
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>> goes |
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>> black on bootup. But now it's instantaneous instead of 60 seconds |
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>> delayed :( |
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>> |
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>> I'm back to functioning vesa mode if I boot with radeon.memset=0, but |
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>> that's |
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>> not really my goal...yet :p |
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> |
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> Last time I reinstalled gentoo, I tried kms too (with my Radeon HD2600 |
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> card). And I had lots of problems with it - in combination with |
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> ati-drivers fglrx module (blank on boot, freeze while starting X, |
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> generell crashes and kernel panics, low performence...,...). So I |
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> finally decided not to use kms disable everything related to kms. Since |
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> then everything is running smoothly. Two weeks ago, I purchased an new |
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> video card (Radeon HD7770) and gave kms another shot. And again, |
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> everything went down the crapper. So disabled it. I can live without it |
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> for the time being. But still, I would be interested in the "why?". |
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You cannot use two drivers at once. Either use the kernel driver (which |
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does KMS), or ati-drivers. You cannot mix drivers. Not in Linux, and |
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not in any other OS I'm aware of. |
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