Re: old G5 iMac with NVIDIA card
On 10.06.2016 15:45, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> Michel,
>
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 4:03 AM, Michel Dänzer <michel@daenzer.net> wrote:
>> On 10.06.2016 05:44, Programmingkid wrote:
>>> I have a ATI Radeon 9600 and it has problems. Debian disappointedly
>>> booted to a command prompt after installing it. Startx also failed to
>>> load the GUI. This news about making a kernel that supports 4k pages
>>> might be a solution.
>>
>> The radeon driver doesn't have trouble with non-4K page size, only the
>> nouveau driver does.
>
> Could you have a quick look at OP report, see:
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=825835#15
[ 48.519] (II) RADEON(0): GPU accel disabled or not working, using shadowfb for KMS
=> check dmesg:
[ 14.772580] [drm:r100_cp_init] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware!
Hardware acceleration requires the firmware-amd-graphics /
firmware-linux-nonfree package to be installed.
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