Bug#544938: linux: direct rendering does not work with radeon driver on kernel 2.6.30-1-i686

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 09:29:33PM +0200, ender wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6.30-1-686
> Version: 2.6.30-6
> Severity: normal
> File: linux
> 
> Direct rendering works with 2.6.26-2-686 but not with 2.6.30-1-686. 
> 
> 
> [  101.492246] platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: requesting radeon/R100_cp.bin
> [  101.548444] radeon_cp: Failed to load firmware "radeon/R100_cp.bin"
> [  101.548456] [drm:radeon_do_init_cp] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware!

You should install firmware-linux, does it fix the error?

Cheers,
        Moritz