On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 08:49 -0600, Dariusz J. Garbowski wrote:
On 09/08/2009 03:26 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
Yes, it is now that legendary time, well loved by the hearts of men for millennia(*): Graphics Test Week!
Tomorrow - 2009-09-09 - is ATI/AMD Radeon graphics card Test Day (1).
Using 2009-09-09 ISO, when passing 'radeon.modeset=1' as boot param, I get "Unknown boot option 'radeon.modeset=1'. Ignoring..." Is that expected?
(sending to all lists as this is #1 Top Question...)
Yes, it is. The 'science bit' is that the kernel itself truly doesn't understand the parameter, which is why you see this message - but the radeon. prefix means it gets automatically passed on to the radeon module, which _does_ understand (and interprets) it.
Personally I consider this a kernel bug, it shouldn't display this message for parameters which will be passed to modules.
radeon.modeset=1 is a no-op, though, modesetting is now default for Radeon chips. So only radeon.modeset=0 (to disable it) makes any sense. Did I leave radeon.modeset=1 in one of the test cases?