http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=609607
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=609607#c14
--- Comment #14 from Stefan Dirsch
(In reply to comment #9) You need to include the modules in the initrd. You need radeon and and the drm modules (and fbcon if you want console at boot)
AFAICS that would be drm, drm_kms_helper, i915, nouveau, radeon.
and for AGP cards, you need the AGP modules.
And that would be intel-agp, sis-agp, via-agp. The issue is that there are no deps from the drm to the appropriate agp module. In an installed system the required agp module is loaded automatically during boot. Then afterwards the drm module once the Xserver gets started. Since that's not possible in initrd Egbert patched mkinitrd in a way that the correct agp/drm module gets loaded in initrd. But that doesn't work for a LiveCD due to obvious reasons.
If you didn't want to include the AGP modules, you could force radeon to use the on-chip gart by passing radeon.agpmode=-1 on the kernel command line.
That would be something for Tobias to try. And Alex, do you happen to know how Fedora/Ubuntu resolve that timing issue with radeon with their LiveCD? BTW, we've never seen that timing issue with nouveau. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.