Bug#794520: linux-image-4.0.0-2-amd64: AMD A8-7100, no thermal information

[Raphaël <raphael.droz@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 11:53:19PM -0300, Raphaël wrote:
> - graphics chipset:
>   - xorg still failing back on VESA: some hope will come from linux
>   4.2 and the DRM_AMDGPU/amdkfd

was wrong.

After reading
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=780475
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=780107
and an update of firmware-linux to testing (= 0.44), the kernel
found the firmwares, the module was loaded successfully and X, mesa & co
started using xserver-xorg-video-radeon.


but...
> - graphics chipset:
>   - backlight: /sys/class/backlight/thinkpad_screen exists using
>     acpi_backlight=vendor, but xrandr (thus xbacklight) complains:
>     "Failed to get size of gamma for output default"
>   - thermal absent

is still true.