Bug 724161

Did you manually force the radeonhd driver? The default driver is supposed to be "radeon" (no hd) and it supports KMS.

Ismail, the behaviour is fine. radeonhd is tried. If it fails due to KMS active radeon driver is loaded. And this is the issue:

[    18.785] (II) RADEON(1): GPU accel disabled or not working, using shadowfb for KMS
[    18.785] (II) Loading sub module "shadow"
[    18.785] (II) LoadModule: "shadow"
[    18.785] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/libshadow.so
[    18.786] (II) Module shadow: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    18.786] 	compiled for 1.10.4, module version = 1.1.0
[    18.786] 	ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.4

Why any GPU acceleration (including 2D operations) are disabled I don't know
though. Could you add the output of 'dmesg'?

Created attachment 457761 [details]
dmesg

Look at bug 723902, I've the same error.

I've tried installing kernel-firmware package (why it's not installed on default install?) but nothing has changed, I've the same error

r600_cp: Failed to load firmware "radeon/R600_rlc.bin"
[drm:r600_startup] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware!
radeon 0000:01:00.0: disabling GPU acceleration

*** Bug 723902 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

/lib/firmware/radeon/R600_rlc.bin is part of kernel-firmware package. Not sure why it isn't installed by default. Makes no sense to me.

Why it still can't be loaded I don't know.

Did you install without the rv620 installed?
I did and I ran into the same issue as kernel-firmware was not installed. However after installing i, unloading raden, drm_kms_helper, ttm and drm and doing 'modprobe radeon' everything worked like expected.

I cannot check if the module gets selected when the card is inserted due to a missing plugin in yast (qt_/ncurses_pkg) and I don't want to run a full installation just to find out.
If you have installed the system with the card inserted there is most likely an issue with the hardware package dependencies.
I've checked:
modinfo -F firmware radeon
lists the required module.
rpm -q --provides kernel-firmware
lists this module as provides of this package.
So this might be a YaST issue.

The card is integrated into the motherboard (asus M5A78L-M LX)

Ok, let's turn this over to the YaST team and see what they think.

Should formulate a question:
A Radeon RV620 card is installed whose DRM driver (radeon.ko) requires microcode from the kernel-firmware package. The package doesn't get installed although it is needed to operate this card.
I've checked all dependencies: 
1. 'modinfo -F firmware radeon' lists this file.
2. This file is listed in 'rpm -q --provides' for the kernel-firmware file
3. the modalias if this device matches the radeon driver.
If we don't install kernel-firmware by default as a dependency on kernel or kernel base it should at least get installed as a dependency on the hardware.
Apparently this does not happen reliably.

AFIAS kernel-firmware includes no supplements and zypp needs these to
add packages depending on the hardware.

If somebody needs to debug this we have at least two machines with this issue here in Nuremberg.

(In reply to comment #14)
> If somebody needs to debug this we have at least two machines with this issue
> here in Nuremberg.

As I said above already:

I can reproduce the issue here perfectly. It however goes away as soon as I install the kernel-firmware package.
Arvin explained in comment #13 what is missing.

This is most probably fixed by https://build.opensuse.org/package/rdiff?commit=39&linkrev=base&package=kernel-firmware&project=Kernel%3AHEAD need to be tested again with upcoming RC2.

This seems to be fixed in Factory.

Closing as fixed since I think the fix in comment 16 fixed it indeed. Thanks and please reopen if it still doesn't work for you with openSUSE 12.1 RC2.