Re: Slow Xorg performance on dual Opteron + Radeon, Jessie 64-bit

[tan_ny@hushmail.com]

On 8/2/2015 at 5:53 PM, "Chris Edwards" <cedwards.debian@cedwards.geek.nz> wrote:
>
>Hi Chris (ha, maybe I should have posted directly to the DunLUG 
>list!)...
>
>On 02/08/15 18:39, Chris Bannister wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 02, 2015 at 05:55:11PM +1200, Chris Edwards wrote:
>>> I've recently installed Debian Jessie 64-bit on my (admittedly 
>rather old)
>>> dual Opteron workstation, and I'm experiencing pretty bad 
>performance in
>>> X11.
>>> [snip]
>>
>> I'm guessing it's a driver issue.
>>
>> What is the output of:
>>
>> apt-cache policy firmware-linux-nonfree
>
>firmware-linux-nonfree:
>   Installed: (none)
>   Candidate: 0.43
>   Version table:
>      0.43 0
>         500 http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/ jessie/non-free 
>amd64 Packages
>
>
>Should I set things up for installing the firmware-linux-nonfree 
>package?  I do already see this in the kernel messages:
>
>[   14.145030] radeon 0000:02:00.0: firmware: direct-loading 
>firmware 
>radeon/R420_cp.bin
>
>and /lib/firmware/radeon/R420_cp.bin exists.
>
>
>...

If /lib/firmware/radeon/R420_cp.bin exists then you've installed firmware-linux-nonfree, as you can see from

https://packages.debian.org/jessie/firmware-linux-free

and

https://packages.debian.org/jessie/firmware-linux-nonfree