On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 02:46 +0200, burek pekaric wrote: > Package: firmware-linux-nonfree > Severity: critical > Justification: breaks the whole system > > I'm trying for several days to get my display up and running on fresh install > of Debian Squeeze. I was looking to find the original drivers from the OEM > here > http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/linux64-radeon-prer200.aspx but > there are just .rpm packages so I've checked here > http://wiki.debian.org/AtiHowTo in order to finally get my screen to display > more than a couple of colors, but.. > > After installing the package firmware-linux-nonfree and reboot, I couldn't > even > get to the login screen, because display would stuck just before the > background > image of the login screen was fully displayed (animated/faded out). The > display > would just freeze and that's it. The mouse would respond for the next couple > of > seconds and it would also die. From that moment on only physical reset button > could be of any help :( > > Trying to figure out what the problem is (and how to stop loading of gnome to > have the simple shell login, so I can remove the package), I've found the key > combination Ctrl+Alt+F1 and Ctrl+Alt+Backspace.
You should boot to single-user mode. In the GRUB menu, this is labelled as 'recovery mode'. If you use LILO, add an entry with 'append=single'. > On next reboot I tried > constantly pressing these combinations and finally somehow I've got the > console > login without GUI, which has let me to login just to show me the message like > this one (several seconds after the login): "... [drm:radeon_fence_wait] > *ERROR* fence(...) 510ms timeout going to reset GPU" and after that, again it > just froze. Please provide the complete messages. > I don't really know what is wrong here, maybe even I've made some wrong steps, > but this really influenced me to stop thinking about switching to Linux, > although I'd really like to give it a try and not give up this easy, but when > the most basic stuff can't work out-of-the-box (like the display driver) it > really makes me feel uncomfortable to proceed any further :/ No offence.. > > Is there any command I can type or anything I can do to give you a more > detailed report, so that this issue can be resolved? 'lspci -vnn' would be helpful, in additional to the kernel log messages. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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