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. AlexThanks, Mike-- Michael Evans ph: 301-405-8763 Department of Geology & ESSIC fax: 301-405-3597 University of Maryland email: mnevans@geol.umd.edu Geology Bldg (#237), Rm. 1120 http://one.geol.umd.edu/www/ College Park, MD 20742 skype: skype.mnevans
-- Michael Evans ph: 301-405-8763 Department of Geology & ESSIC fax: 301-405-3597 University of Maryland email: mnevans@geol.umd.edu Geology Bldg (#237), Rm. 1120 http://one.geol.umd.edu/www/ College Park, MD 20742 skype: skype.mnevans