Re: Graphics corruption with Radeon X1270 (RS690M)
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 07:37:34 -0500, Carl Fink wrote:
> So I wanted to activate video acceleration on my Gateway LT3119U
> netbook, which uses the Radeon X1270 chipset (RS690M). I installed the
> package firmware-linux-nonfree and restarted X.
>
> Before the upgrade, GNOME3 reported that it couldn't fully activate
> because of my system's limitations. Afterward it activated and
> immediately corrupted the video horribly. I switched to a "fallback"
> session, which will remain uncorrupted for up to two minutes before
> becoming corrupted somewhat less horribly. Then I tried Openbox, which
> takes a few minutes longer to corrupt, then becomes utterly unreadable.
>
> See screenshots here: http://panix.com/~carlf/files
Wow...
> Short of reverting to unaccelerated video, any suggestions?
(...)
Try by disabling KMS (append "nomodeset" with no quotes to the kernel's
line at the GRUB menu) and check if it makes any difference.
Regardless the result, I would file a bug for this.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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