On Monday 23 April 2012 11:18:52 you wrote:

Linux-3.3.3

$ dmesg|grep drm [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 [drm] radeon defaulting to userspace modesetting. [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 1 (10.10.2010). [drm] No driver support for vblank timestamp query. [drm] Initialized radeon 1.33.0 20080528 for 0000:02:00.0 on minor 0 [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map [drm] Loading RV730 CP Microcode [drm:r600_do_init_cp] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware!

I have now booted using radeon.modeset=0 and then manually doing 'modprobe radeon modeset=1'

this gives the following messages on linux-3.3.4. The error message is now different, but it still fails. The file /lib/firmware/radeon/RV730_pfp.bin exists There are message about rv730/rv770

[drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC5] enabled at IRQ 16 [drm] initializing kernel modesetting (RV730 0x1002:0x9498 0x1787:0x2269). [drm] register mmio base: 0xF3000000 [drm] register mmio size: 65536 ATOM BIOS: 88209JCA.EFK radeon 0000:02:00.0: VRAM: 512M 0x0000000000000000 - 0x000000001FFFFFFF (512M used) radeon 0000:02:00.0: GTT: 512M 0x0000000020000000 - 0x000000003FFFFFFF [drm] Detected VRAM RAM=512M, BAR=256M [drm] RAM width 128bits DDR [TTM] Zone kernel: Available graphics memory: 2028866 kiB. [TTM] Initializing pool allocator. [TTM] Initializing DMA pool allocator. [drm] radeon: 512M of VRAM memory ready [drm] radeon: 512M of GTT memory ready. [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 1 (10.10.2010). [drm] Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query. radeon 0000:02:00.0: irq 42 for MSI/MSI-X radeon 0000:02:00.0: radeon: using MSI. [drm] radeon: irq initialized. [drm] GART: num cpu pages 131072, num gpu pages 131072 [drm] radeon: ib pool ready. [drm] Loading RV730 Microcode r600_cp: Failed to load firmware "radeon/RV730_pfp.bin" [drm:rv770_startup] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware! radeon 0000:02:00.0: disabling GPU acceleration radeon 0000:02:00.0: ffff88011a561000 unpin not necessary radeon 0000:02:00.0: ffff88011a46c000 unpin not necessary radeon 0000:02:00.0: ffff88011a46c000 unpin not necessary [drm] Radeon Display Connectors [drm] Connector 0: [drm] HDMI-A [drm] HPD2 [drm] DDC: 0x7f10 0x7f10 0x7f14 0x7f14 0x7f18 0x7f18 0x7f1c 0x7f1c [drm] Encoders: [drm] DFP2: INTERNAL_UNIPHY1 [drm] Connector 1: [drm] VGA [drm] DDC: 0x7e50 0x7e50 0x7e54 0x7e54 0x7e58 0x7e58 0x7e5c 0x7e5c [drm] Encoders: [drm] CRT2: INTERNAL_KLDSCP_DAC2 [drm] Connector 2: [drm] DVI-I [drm] HPD1 [drm] DDC: 0x7e20 0x7e20 0x7e24 0x7e24 0x7e28 0x7e28 0x7e2c 0x7e2c [drm] Encoders: [drm] CRT1: INTERNAL_KLDSCP_DAC1 [drm] DFP1: INTERNAL_UNIPHY [drm] Internal thermal controller without fan control [drm] radeon: power management initialized [drm] fb mappable at 0xE0040000 [drm] vram apper at 0xE0000000 [drm] size 5242880 [drm] fb depth is 24 [drm] pitch is 5120 bcon: radeondrmfb (fb0) is primary device Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x64 fb0: radeondrmfb frame buffer device drm: registered panic notifier [drm] Initialized radeon 2.13.0 20080528 for 0000:02:00.0 on minor 0

This may be related to udev: I have udev-182 + kmod-7

$ ls -l /lib/firmware/radeon/RV730* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5440 Apr 23 08:43 /lib/firmware/radeon/RV730_me.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3392 Apr 23 08:43 /lib/firmware/radeon/RV730_pfp.bin

# lspci -nn -v -d 1002: 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV730 PRO [Radeon HD 4650] [1002:9498] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Hightech Information System Ltd. Device [1787:2269] Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16 Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Memory at f3000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] I/O ports at a000 [size=256] [virtual] Expansion ROM at f2000000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [58] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=010 <?>

02:00.1 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV710/730 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 4000 series] [1002:aa38] Subsystem: Hightech Information System Ltd. Device [1787:aa38] Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 41 Memory at f3010000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [58] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=010 <?> Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel

Full config and dmesg files attached

$ sh scripts/ver_linux If some fields are empty or look unusual you may have an old version. Compare to the current minimal requirements in Documentation/Changes.

Linux Gemini-64 3.3.3 #21 SMP PREEMPT Mon Apr 23 08:43:10 CEST 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Gnu C 4.7.0 Gnu make 3.82 binutils 2.22 util-linux 2.21.1 mount support module-init-tools 7 e2fsprogs 1.42.2 Linux C Library 2.15 Dynamic linker (ldd) 2.15 Linux C++ Library 6.0.17 Procps 3.2.8 Net-tools 1.60 Kbd 1.15.3 Sh-utils 8.16 Modules Loaded radeon power_supply drm_kms_helper ttm drm i2c_algo_bit af_packet it87 hwmon_vid snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq fuse snd_hda_codec_hdmi snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_trident snd_util_mem snd_ac97_codec ac97_bus snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_seq_device snd_pcm snd_page_alloc snd_timer snd sr_mod cdrom 8250_pnp soundcore 8250 processor firewire_ohci serial_core firewire_core crc_itu_t psmouse i2c_nforce2 i2c_core forcedeth parport_pc parport button evdev k8temp