Bug#647897: firmware-linux-nonfree: please include fw for ATI/AMD 6300M (e.g. 6470M) Chipsets, found e.g. in some newer HP Laptops

[Mark Dominik Bürkle <dominik.buerkle@web.de>]

Package: firmware-linux-nonfree
Version: 0.28+squeeze1
Severity: normal

Hi,

after installing firmware-linux-nonfree I still had errors in dmesg with kernel
3.0.8:

[  898.849606] radeon 0000:01:00.0: radeon: using MSI.
[  898.849706] [drm] radeon: irq initialized.
[  898.849719] [drm] GART: num cpu pages 131072, num gpu pages 131072
[  898.851091] [drm] Loading CAICOS Microcode
[  898.884786] ni_cp: Failed to load firmware "radeon/CAICOS_pfp.bin"
[  898.884791] [drm:evergreen_startup] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware!

so I asked google about it, found a slackware package with firmware...

  953  sudo cp -a lib/firmware/radeon/CAICOS_pfp.bin /lib/firmware/radeon/
  957  sudo cp -a lib/firmware/radeon/CAICOS_me.bin /lib/firmware/radeon/
  961  sudo cp -a lib/firmware/radeon/BTC_rlc.bin /lib/firmware/radeon/
  965  sudo cp -a lib/firmware/radeon/CAICOS_mc.bin /lib/firmware/radeon/

Could You please include these firmware files in firmware-linux-nonfree?

Now for some more tries about "vga_switcheroo" and turning the non-used not-
supported DIScrete graphics card off...

Kind regards,
Dominik



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.8 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

firmware-linux-nonfree depends on no packages.

firmware-linux-nonfree recommends no packages.

Versions of packages firmware-linux-nonfree suggests:
ii  initramfs-tools               0.98.8     tools for generating an initramfs
ii  linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 [l 2.6.32-38  Linux 2.6.32 for 64-bit PCs

-- no debconf information