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Re: rigmarole about debian and radeon



> Why "of course"? I don't have a separate /home partitions and still

> happy :-)

my sweet /home is on a separate physical drive and I hope now to be able to mess a little bit around without losing all data...:)

> What problems are you facing in GNOME? Be the more specific you can.

> ...

> 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...?

back to my issue:

Under KDE everything is in the best order. The image is just as it should be but my HDMI Monitor is not always detected on boot-up. Even when KDE runs the HDMI screen breaks on occasion. When I start GNOME on the other hand the resolution on both screens is poor somehow blurred. My head begins to ache so I think there is also flickering. Positioning is ok.

I suspect that the driver isn't used right.

> I would try with no "xorg.conf" file at all which OTOH, should not be

> required by now.

What do you mean by OTOH?

> 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.

Yes that's right. I use HDMI and VGA ports. I can't use dvi because my second Monitor is an older model with an interesting almost square geometry - very good for reading.

Up to now I don't miss the extended 3D capabilities but you never know...

best regards

Boris


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