modesetting feature status

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Fri Sep 19 18:45:02 UTC 2008


On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 07:57:34PM +0200, Joshua C. wrote:
>I tried `strace -o /drm.strace modprobe drm debug=1` and got the
>output in the attached file. I tried the same with `strace -o
>/radeon.trace modprobe radeon modeset=1` but this time there's nothing
>in the file. How can I hook strace to the radeon driver?

You can't.  All you're stracing is the modprobe command, not the driver
operation.

Drivers don't operate in userspace, and don't make system calls.  So strace
just plain doesn't work.

josh




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