On Fre, 2012-02-17 at 14:33 +0100, Stephane Louise wrote: > > Michel Dänzer wrote: > > For Radeons, that's only true for older cards without ATOM BIOS, > > basically anything older than Radeon X1xxx. So this shouldn't be a > > problem for a Radeon HD 5450, but there might be other issues, e.g. the > > drivers in the stable release might be too old to properly support that > > card. > > Just for fun, I am trying to use a standard PC, PCIe Radeon HD 5450 > with my Quad G5, under testing (tested with kernel 3.1, not yet -but > soon- 3.2). And, according to dmesg, the card is correctly > initialized, but doesn't work (no image displayed), and xorg fails > completely. One of the issue is that the driver doesn't seem to detect > any monitor even when a new one is plugged in (cold boot or hot > plugged doesn't make a difference AFAIKS). > > If you have a suggestion, you are welcome.
Can't say anything without seeing at least the dmesg output. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.amd.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1329489906.2859.466.camel@thor.local
