On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:15 PM, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 06/28/2010 04:44 AM, Damien Churchill wrote: >> >> On 28 June 2010 10:35, Paul Ezvan<paul@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> Le dimanche 27 juin 2010 à 13:19 -0500, David C. Rankin a écrit : >>>> >>>> Guys, >>>> >>>> Just updated my laptop's spare drive and something in the last set >>>> up updates, >>>> which included the kernel, really affected the radeon driver badly. It's >>>> almost >>>> like I am back running in framebuffer mode. I'm not quite sure where to >>>> start >>>> troubleshooting as I am not familiar at all with the changes kms >>>> introduced into >>>> the radeon driver soup, but I suspect that may be where the problem >>>> lies. I have >>>> no xorg.conf, so if there are config issues, it's with the default >>>> config. >>>> >>> [...] >>>> >>>> [ 37.526] is imortant (WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled >>>> [ 37.526] (II) RADEON(0): Acceleration disabled >>>> >>> >>> Last time I had this problem with a radeon card, it was because of a >>> missing firmware (R700rlc in my case). Maybe you should search in this >>> direction ? >>> >> >> The linux-firmware package now contains all the required firmware for >> drivers now, IIRC. >> > > Thanks Paul, Damien & C. Anthony: > > At least we have narrowed it down some. I'll look for some stray > firmware, but for the past 1.5 years with the same laptop, I have never > needed any additional firmware for this ATI x1200 card (RS690M chip). I > don't put it past being a problem with the firmware in the kernel or > somewhere in the new packages. > > As part of the troubleshooting, I will probably need to downgrade to > the last set of packages and kernel. What's the best way to downgrade the > kernel? Is this a 'pacman -Sf' issue or a 'pacman -Uf' issue? I still have > the old kernel packages on my box that I can reinstall locally if that > changes the equation any. > > Thanks for any help you can give. > > > -- > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. > Rankin Law Firm, PLLC > 510 Ochiltree Street > Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 > Telephone: (936) 715-9333 > Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 > www.rankinlawfirm.com > So do i!BUMP
