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

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

> [    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.