Re: kern/49290: DRMKMS fails to work with R300

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/49290; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, roy%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/49290: DRMKMS fails to work with R300
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 08:43:16 +0000

 On 08/01/2015 06:45, matthew green wrote:
 >  this problem has been diagnosed:
 >  
 >  	- i386 GENERIC has attachments for wsdisplay at both vga(4)
 >  	  and pcdisplay(4), and this attaches before drm
 >  	- this means that drm attaches wsdisplay1, and it is unable
 >  	  to deal with console input or output.
 >  
 >  the workaround is to add these lines to your config:
 >  
 >  	no pcdisplay
 >  	no vga0 at isa?
 >  
 >  which avoids wsdisplay0 not being owned by drm.
 
 Workaround confirmed to work, thanks.
 
 >  the real solution is still unknown.  perhaps, simply removing the
 >  old setup by default?
 
 old setup? The old radeondrm stuff is already commented out, otherwise
 unless you refer to the pcdisplay and vga as old setup.
 
 Thanks
 
 Roy