re: kern/49366: drm2 GENERIC X11_TYPE=modular no screens found Gigabyte Radeon HD 4350

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/49366; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, davshao%gmail.com@localhost
Cc: kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
    netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: re: kern/49366: drm2 GENERIC X11_TYPE=modular no screens found Gigabyte Radeon HD 4350
Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2015 18:50:35 +1100

 > [    87.070] drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports pci:0001:01:00.0
 > [    87.070] (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed because of a version mismatch.
 > [dri] This chipset requires a kernel module version of 1.17.0,
 > [dri] but the kernel reports a version of 2.38.0.[dri] Make sure your module is loaded prior to starting X, and
 > [dri] that this driver was built with support for KMS.
 > [dri] Aborting.
 
 this implies that the ati driver is not built with KMS enabled.
 
 i would install the ati7 pkgsrc driver (pkgsrc/x11/xf86-video-ati
 not pkgsrc/x11/xf86-video-ati6, though the former used to have
 ati6 in it of course.)
 
 alternatively hack the ati6 drive to enable KMS.  i had to patch
 the xsrc version fairly significantly to make it properly work,
 it might be worth investigating those changes if you want to use
 ati6 driver:
 
 http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2014/07/29/msg056866.html
 
 sorry i didn't pay enough attention to this before!
 
 
 .mrg.