Re: Did any recent testing update break ATI fglrx drivers?
On 2010-06-18 15:20 +0200, Matteo Riva wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
>
>>>> There is a new kernel in squeeze that includes shiny KMS framebuffer
>>>> drivers for both Radeon and Nvidia cards. These are incompatible with
>>>> the proprietary blobs from ATI and Nvidia.
>>>
>>> Can you point me to more information on this topic?
>>
>> For Radeon cards, http://wiki.debian.org/KernelModesetting has some
>> information.
>
> Anyway my current kernel is
>
> Linux blue 2.6.32-trunk-686 #1 SMP Sun Jan 10 06:32:16 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
You should get rid of that and use 2.6.32-5-686 instead.
> I doesn't look like it was update recently, so I don't think it's the
> incompatibility you mention causing the problem.
Maybe not, but this kernel is seriously broken anyway and it should not have been
uploaded to sid, much less migrated to testing.
Sven
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