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Bug#687461: Solved: Re: Bug#687461: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: HD 6310 video gives only colored snow/black screen (fwd)



Dear Debian Community,

Alex Deucher and Debian community,

Sorry for the delayed response. Installing firmware-linux-nonfree solved the problem - video on the AMD E-350/Radeon HD6310 works now.

Notwithstanding the conversation I started, I think you can mark this as 'not-a-bug' for the problem I reported. Thanks again for your help and support. Looking forward to working with this distribution.

Sincerely,
Mike Evans

On Thu, 13 Sep 2012, Alex Deucher wrote:

Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:23:41 -0400
From: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>
To: Michael Evans <mnevans@geol.umd.edu>
Subject: Re: Bug#687461: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: HD 6310 video gives only
    colored snow/black screen

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Michael Evans <mnevans@geol.umd.edu> wrote:
Alex,

Thanks again.  So nothing is solved, only disabled.  The output of lsmod was
for grepping the string "radeon".

Do you mean, I have to install the package firmware-linux-nonfree? Because
firmware-linux-free is part of the build.

yes.


Thanks,
Mike

On Thu, 13 Sep 2012, Alex Deucher wrote:

Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:17:38 -0400
From: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>
To: Michael Evans <mnevans@geol.umd.edu>
Subject: Re: Bug#687461: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: HD 6310 video gives
only
    colored snow/black screen

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Michael Evans <mnevans@geol.umd.edu>
wrote:

Alex,

Thanks for your reply.  When I boot and append

radeon.modeset=0

I can get the display fixed, although Gnome 3 starts in failsafe
(apparently
classic) mode.  This I can live with.

$lsmod | grep firmware gives:

radeon                639188  0
ttm                    48725  1 radeon
drm_kms_helper         27227  1 radeon
drm                   167670  3 drm_kms_helper,ttm,radeon
power_supply           13475  1 radeon
i2c_algo_bit           12841  1 radeon
i2c_core               23876  5
i2c_algo_bit,i2c_piix4,drm,drm_kms_helper,radeon

So I think the drivers were loaded as kernel modules.

Maybe this bug should be marked as 'solved' (if you consider it a bug at
all)?


radeon.modeset=0 disables the driver.  If you want to use the driver
and have acceleration, you'll need to install the firmware.

Alex


Thanks,
Mike



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University of Maryland             email: mnevans@geol.umd.edu
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