Re: old G5 iMac with NVIDIA card
Dear Programmingkind,
On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Michel Dänzer <michel@daenzer.net> wrote:
> 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.
Could you please re-run "/usr/share/bug/xorg/script 3>/tmp/script.log"
and attached
it again to this bug report, now that you installed the firmware:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=825835#25
-M
Reply to: