Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > Aioanei Rares wrote: >> What drivers are you using for your video card? How do you >> install them? > > I don't know (nowadays I just use stock kernels and they always > work). I just checked though, and the game Foobilliard (which > requires hardware acceleration) no longer appears to be > accelerated. glxgears is slow. lsmod says I have a module > called radeon, which itself uses a module called drm. > > According to apt-file search, the file R200_cp.bin is in the > package firmware-linux. I'll try installing it tonight. Must > rush and do something else now.
Well, I tried installing it, and there is both good news and bad news. The good news is: in dmesg it now says [ 51.081753] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 [ 51.125579] [drm] Initialized radeon 1.30.0 20080528 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0 [ 51.457965] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: AGP 3.0 bridge [ 51.457989] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: putting AGP V3 device into 8x mode [ 51.458031] pci 0000:01:00.0: putting AGP V3 device into 8x mode [ 51.679116] [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map [ 51.679178] [drm] Loading R200 Microcode [ 51.679185] platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: requesting radeon/R200_cp.bin [ 51.725307] [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs The bad news is that calling glxgears or foobilliard now completely freezes the X keyboard and display. You have to get out of it with the reset button (or by keeping alt-sysrq pressed and typing "reisubs"). Also, if I don't call these "accelerated" programs, iceweasel works, but its crash problem seems even worse than before. Fortunately the damage can be recovered from by un-installing the firmware-linux package. Is my computer just too old for modern kernels or modern iceweasel versions? It has 512 M of memory, which is considered "meagre" nowadays, but this is of the DDR type, and I can't find extra memory anywhere (only DDR2 in the shops now). Or should I try the fglrx-modules-2.6.30-2-686 package (which is, AFAIK, the non-free radeon driver package)? Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
