Re: ATI/AMD graphics cards

[Andrew Wood <a.j.w@me.com>]

Thats got it.

root@andrew-debian-pc:/home/andrew# dmesg | grep firmware
[   15.017339] rt61pci 0000:02:05.0: firmware: requesting rt2561s.bin
[   20.434307] platform r600_cp.0: firmware: requesting radeon/RV730_pfp.bin
[   20.442403] r600_cp: Failed to load firmware "radeon/RV730_pfp.bin"
[   20.442413] [drm:r600_do_init_cp] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware!


Looks like I need to install that package then. Thanks

I installed the firmware for the Ralink Wifi card myself from a separate 
package, how come thats in its own package not in firmware-linux-nonfree?

What is meant by kernel mode setting?

As I said before I had to edit /etc/modprobe/radeon-kms.conf and change

options radeon modeset=1

to

options radeon modeset=0

I found this out by Googling but Im not really sure how it fixed the problem




On 11/04/11 15:59, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
> Try dmesg:
>
> paul@server2:~$ dmesg | grep firmware
> [    5.885197] platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: requesting
> radeon/RS780_pfp.bin
> [    6.071215] platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: requesting
> radeon/RS780_me.bin
> [    6.092606] platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: requesting
> radeon/R600_rlc.bin
>
> The firmware for the radeon HD is in the package firmware-linux-nonfree.
>
> With regards,
> Paul van der Vlis.