Bug#575226: firmware-linux-nonfree: firmware shipped in 0.23 cause radeonhd xorg drivers to be unusable with RV770

[Mathieu Roy <yeupou@gnu.org>]

severity 575226 minor
retitle 575226 firmware-linux-nonfree 0.23 is in conflict with xserver-xorg-
video-radeonhd and should suggest xserver-xorg-video-radeon
thanks

Le mercredi 24 mars 2010, Julien Cristau a écrit :
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:40:36 +0100, Mathieu Roy wrote:
> > Regarding X, only xserver-xorg-core, xserver-xorg,
> > xserver-xorg-video-radeon was recently upgraded.
> 
> The latest xserver-xorg-video-radeon package enables kernel mode
> setting.  This is incompatible with the radeonhd X driver.  You should
> use the radeon driver instead.

I did not know that. To me, it seemed like radeonhd driver was the future and 
radeon some kind of legacy driver. Apparently, it is not.

I switched to the radeon driver and now it works (only with the latest 
kernel).

I think it should be documented somewhere. And considering the results of 
running firmware-linux-nonfree with xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd (blank 
screen), maybe it would be nice to add a conflict against xserver-xorg-video-
radeonhd and a suggest in favor of xserver-xorg-video-radeon.

Thanks for your assistance


-- 
Mathieu Roy