Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > [ 5.444138] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting disabled; it requires firmware-linux-nonfree. > > This means the change > > * radeon: Disable KMS earlier if firmware is not installed (Closes: #607194) > > kicked in correctly. Do I understand correctly that the screen was > corrupted anyway? Is this still without X? Correct. I was simply upgrading and not seeing a usable vt console screen after the upgrade. It was a 60/40 snow/white unusable display. If it had worked then I would have stopped there. Worse is that it was working and usable in Squeeze but after upgrading to Wheezy there was no usable console. > I'm interested because without-firmware is the default situation when > new users install Debian, so it's best if we can ensure it works at > least well enough to open a browser and read about firmware. I am currently recreating the Squeeze installation and then will recreate the upgrade to Wheezy. Then will later try a pristine Wheezy installation. I will try to narrow down the issue more precisely. Bob
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