Removing radeon from initramfs and putting it in MODULES section of rc.conf solves the problem. 2009/12/5 Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Gabriel Morrison Lima Dantas schrieb: > > Hi, I installed kernel26 and kernel26-firmware from testing, and I'm >> experiencing some problems with KMS. During system initialization, the >> system requests the firmware radeon/R300_cp.bin, waits a couple of seconds >> and then proceeds normal initialization. But when I log into X, DRI isn't >> enabled. Checking dmesg, I see that the kernel couldn't load R300 >> firmware, >> therefore disabling GPU acceleration. >> My problem is the same of this post: >> http://old.nabble.com/kernel-2.6.32-experiences-td26458040.html. Thomas >> said >> that mkinitcpio automatically inserts firmware listed in modinfo module in >> the initramfs image. When I run modinfo radeon | grep R300, it shows me >> 'firmware: radeon/R300_cp.bin'. So it should be available to kernel at the >> time of requesting it, shouldn't it? >> Has someone any idea to help solving that problem? >> > > Can you remove radeon from initramfs and try in the real system? I suspect > that the initramfs/udev firmware loader is broken - this can't be fixed > until we dump klibc, which I don't have the time for currently. > > -- Gabriel Morrison
