Re: problem with starting X in -current.

Frank Wille <[email protected]> wrote:
>Robert Swindells wrote:
>
>> Which radeon driver ?
>
>Are there more? The usual one, I guess:

There are two, so "the usual one" doesn't really answer my question.

>---8<---
>[    54.985] (--) PCI:*(0:0:8:0) 1002:5960:1043:004c rev 1, Mem @
>0xc0000000/134217728, 0xc8000000/65536, I/O @ 0x00001000/256, BIOS @
>0x????????/131072
>[    54.985] (--) PCI: (0:0:8:1) 1002:5940:1043:004d rev 1, Mem @
>0xd0000000/134217728, 0xc8010000/65536
>[...]
>[    55.079] (II) LoadModule: "radeon"
>[    55.081] (II) Loading /usr/X11R7/lib/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so
>[    55.152] (II) Module radeon: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
>[    55.152]    compiled for 1.18.4, module version = 6.14.6
>[    55.152]    Module class: X.Org Video Driver
>[    55.152]    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 20.0
>---8<---

That looks like the non-dri one, what do you see if you do:

% ls -l /usr/X11R7/lib/modules/drivers/*radeon*

For -current on amd64 I get:

lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       16 Jan  1 22:34 /usr/X11R7/lib/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so -> radeon_drv.so.18
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   560440 Jan  1 22:31 /usr/X11R7/lib/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so.18
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   539936 Feb 13  2018 /usr/X11R7/lib/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so.7
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       19 Jan  1 22:34 /usr/X11R7/lib/modules/drivers/radeon_drv_old.so -> radeon_drv_old.so.6
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  1176560 Jan  1 22:31 /usr/X11R7/lib/modules/drivers/radeon_drv_old.so.6

To use the older driver I would have to do something like:

# cd /usr/X11R7/lib/modules/drivers
# mv radeon_drv.so.18 radeon_drv_new.so.18
# mv radeon_drv_old.so.6 radeon_drv.so.6
# rm radeon_drv.so
# ln -s radeon_drv.so.6 radeon_drv.so

If you didn't do this when you installed -8 then you could be picking up
a different version.