Re: rigmarole about debian and radeon
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:52:15 +0200, lavcina wrote:
> to start it should not be unmentioned that my linux knowledge is in
> development. So your experience is highly needed. For some reasons I
> want to use the debian squeeze OS. Might be that you feel the same
> vocation. Now I have installed a debian squeeze OS with the gnome
> environment and one with the kde GUI. Of course with a seperate home
> partition.
Why "of course"? I don't have a separate /home partitions and still
happy :-)
> My grafics card, a radeon hd 4850, does not work acceptable under gnome
> but works fine ( sometimes ) then I start the kde Desktop.
What problems are you facing in GNOME? Be the more specific you can.
> I suspect that something has to be adjusted in the configuration files
> because the radeon driver ( the free version ) does not work right from
> the beginning. Sometimes the HDMI device isn't probed right and has
> difficulties with the EDID number. I use two Monitors one connected via
> HDMI and a smaller one by VGA
I don't see where the problem with HDMI is. Can you describe what are the
symptoms? Is it related to resolution, flickering, output not detected or
bad positioning...?
> I tried to create a xorg.conf file but the result is not convincing. I
> will append to this message the Xlog output and the xorg.conf.new file
> contents.
(...)
I would try with no "xorg.conf" file at all which OTOH, should not be
required by now.
I will leave the lines I find relevant...
> Current Operating System: Linux xiuxiu 2.6.39-bpo.2-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Jul 26 10:35:23 UTC 2011 x86_64
So you are using a backported kernel...
> (WW) RADEON(0): Color tiling is not yet supported on R600/R700
> (II) RADEON(0): KMS Color Tiling: disabled
(...)
> (II) RADEON(0): Output DVI-0 has no monitor section
> (II) RADEON(0): Output HDMI-0 has no monitor section
> (II) RADEON(0): Output VGA-0 has no monitor section
(...)
> (II) RADEON(0): Output DVI-0 disconnected
> (II) RADEON(0): Output HDMI-0 connected
> (II) RADEON(0): Output VGA-0 connected
(...)
So you are using the VGA and HDMI ports, right? Using digital outputs is
usually recommended (meaning, dvi would be better that vga).
> (WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled
> (II) RADEON(0): Acceleration disabled
To get 3D capabilities you may need to install some binary blob
(firmware-linux-nonfree) from the non-free repository.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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