On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:28:36 +0100 "Dennis J." <dennisml@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 01/06/2010 12:18 AM, François Cami wrote: > > On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:56:54 +0100 > > "Dennis J."<dennisml@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> On 01/05/2010 06:56 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > >>> On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 16:48 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > >>>> this is and the > >>>> output from lspci > >>> > >>> there's no need for this on X.org bugs, the Xorg.0.log file contains > >>> sufficient information on the graphics hardware. > >> > >> This bug seems to be both a KMS bug and a Xorg bug. I can get boot into > >> runlevel 3 but the display isn't initialized properly and the only way I > >> got some of the debug information attached to the bug was by blindly > >> logging in, setting up sshd and then logging in from another machine. > >> > >> The second problem is that when I boot with nomodeset I get to the desktop > >> but it is so slow it cannot be used for regular work. I'm not sure if that > >> is a bug or because the radeon driver now requires KMS for any sort of 2D > >> acceleration. > > > > On most radeons, both UMS and KMS are accelerated on Fedora 12. > > That may not be the case for R700, and at any rate we'd rather have > > the KMS codepath working than the older UMS. > > If booting into KMS/runlevel 3 fails, it's a KMS problem, Xorg has no > > way to recover from that. > > On the other hand, your logs show both nouveau and radeon, as pointed > > out by Jóhann. Could you try booting with the parameter: > > nouveau.modeset=0 > > and report? > > Success! Adding "nouveau.modeset=0" did the trick and the machine now boots > into runlevels 3 and 5 with the displays native resolution of 1920x1200. > Two things though: > > 1. During boot I just got the same boring old progress bar at the bottom > that I also get on F11. Aren't I supposed to see a funky boot plugin with KMS? Maybe plymouth and accompanying themes are not properly installed. To recap: Without nomodeset, but with nouveau.modeset=0, runlevels 3 and 5 do work. > 2. While the performance is not as unusable as it was with "nomodeset" It's > still a lot worse compared to F11. I can barely play a youtube video. (eats > one of my two cpu cores almost completely whereas on F11 that takes about > 15% in "top") Adding Jerome in CC. Jerome, is there anything we can do to trace performance regression issues? François -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
