Bug#492459: Toshiba M70-144 with ATI Radeon X700 display

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Adrian J wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati 
> Version: (1:6.6.3-2)
>
> I recently made a standard Debian 4 installation on a Toshiba Satellite M70-144 laptop.  This model has an ATI Radeon X700 display.
>
> The ATI driver which is rolled in as part of the standard installation fails to light the panel in this model of laptop.  I have tried three times to get the open source ATI driver 
> working, without success.
>
> I have re-configured the system to use the fglxr-driver and, using information gleaned from the Ubuntu help pages, have managed to get the panel working in a very 
> satisfactory manner.
>
> My guess is that this problem is likely to be specific to the laptop hardware I am using.  I don't think maintainers should spend time on this, but I do think maintainers should know the problem exists.
>   


Please try latest xserver-xorg-video-ati (6.9.0). 6.6.3 is veeeeeeeery old.
If it fails, please send the corresponding config and log.

Brice