On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 19:08:52 +0100 Joost Kraaijeveld <J.Kraaijeveld@Askesis.nl> wrote: > Hi, > > After installing flgrx 10.11-1 from Sid on my Squeeze machine nothing > worked. So I decided to revert back to fglrx 10.9-3 (which worked, > sort of). But now nothing works (comfortably). I get very slow video > performance with normal operations like scrolling and drag and drop. > Glxgears (I know it is not a benchmark) drops to 60 FPS where it used > to be > 2500. > > I don't know what the problem exactly is, but for starters it seems > that the Radeon firmware is not loaded any more. I have tried > (almost?) all options that I could think of: > > - removed all vga references from /boot/grub/grub.conf and others, > - adding fglr as module in /etc/modules, > - adding fglrx-kms.conf and/or radeon-kms.conf with "options fglrx > modeset=0/1" and "options radeon modeset=0/1", > - with and without blacklisting radeon, > - adding all sort of modules to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules: > agpgart > agpgart-amd64 > i2c-core > i2s-algo-bit > drm > drm_kms_helper > ttm > fglrx/radeon > -running update-grub / uptdae-initramfs etc as appropriate. > > > How can I get my Radeon card working again? What should be in > my /etc/modules, /etc/initramfs-tools/modules, /etc/modprobe,d/* ? > > Is there anyone who has a Radion HD 3850 working on a Squeeze machine > with acceptable performance tha can send me those files? > > TIA for any pointers to answers or solutions, > > > ( Angus Hedger gave me a working solution for my slow Radeon card. > Because it worked I tried something else as installing the next great > version ;-). Sorry Angus, I will not do that again). > It happens ;) I would purge out everything fglrx related, restore all the stuff you messed with, removing all blacklists related to fglrx. Also remove your xorg.conf reboot reinstall fglrx, run $ sudo aticonfig --initial And it all should work. Also see: https://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary#Squeeze Once its all installed, follow the instructions I gave before to fix the slow 2D ;) ------ Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97
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