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Bug#728600: firmware-linux-nonfree: RADEON graphics produce non-displayable modes, virtual terminals broken



On Sun, 2013-11-03 at 14:28 +0100, Andreas Glaeser wrote:
> Package: firmware-linux-nonfree

Not really, no.

> Version: 0.36+wheezy.1
> Severity: minor
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
> 
>    * What led up to the situation?
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
>    * What outcome did you expect instead?
> 
> *** End of the template - remove these lines ***
> 
> As a birthday-present I bought myself a 'HIS Radeon HD 6450' PCIe-card, now I can confirm
> that the problem already reported there:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=725409
> is not exclusively affecting my onboard-graphics, but may also affect other RADEON
> solutions. There was an update of Xserver-xorg-core installed today, but obviously it did
> not fix the problem. I was not lucky setting up the fglrx-driver either, because dkms is
> broken.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 7.2
>   APT prefers stable-updates
>   APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/3 CPU cores)
[...]

Try installing linux-image-amd64 and firmware-linux-nonfree from
wheezy-backports.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Editing code like this is akin to sticking plasters on the bleeding stump
of a severed limb. - me, 29 June 1999

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