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Bug#802937: firmware-linux-nonfree: radeon tahiti firmware fails to load



On 25/10/15 04:43 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
Control: reassign -1 firmware-amd-graphics 20151018-2

On Sun, 2015-10-25 at 07:36 -0400, Gary Dale wrote:
Package: firmware-linux-nonfree
Version: 20151018-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

    * What led up to the situation?
Whenever I boot my computer I get error messages regarding the video card's firmware.
My video card is an ASUS HD 7850 DirectCU II. I would expect from the package contents
list that the correct firmware is the Pitcairn that does appear to load properly.
Just not sure why it it is attempting to load Tahiti after loading Pitcairn.
The 'Tahiti' and 'Pitcairn' chips are both in the 'Southern Islands'
family and have some modules in common, so they use the same firmware
for those modules.

[...]
[    3.988553] radeon 0000:01:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware radeon/TAHITI_uvd.bin
[    3.988592] radeon 0000:01:00.0: firmware: failed to load radeon/TAHITI_vce.bin (-2)
[    3.988638] radeon 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for radeon/TAHITI_vce.bin failed with error -2
[    3.988641] radeon 0000:01:00.0: radeon_vce: Can't load firmware "radeon/TAHITI_vce.bin"
[...]

This file certainly is included in the package, though.

Can you check the package is installed properly:
     dpkg --verify firmware-amd-graphics

When did this problem first appear?  Did you upgrade the kernel or
firmware packages?

Ben.

The dpkg --verify runs but produces no output. Same results when I try --audit instead. I don't know if that is expected or not.

Several months ago I got a new case that allowed me to reinstall the graphics card. The old case wasn't big enough to accommodate the card + the disk drives so I used an older, shorter card.

I'm not sure when the error started appearing. Probably when I upgraded to Stretch.


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