Stefan Bellon engraved : > Hi all, > > I've been running Debian unstable on my IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad T60 for > more than two years with the proprietary fglrx driver to drive the ATI > Radeon Mobility X1400. > > With a recent upgrade a few weeks ago the fglrx driver didn't work > anymore, so I fell back to the radeon driver which worked (although not > as fast as the fglrx one). > > Yesterday I thought to upgrade again in order to see whether fglrx now > works again, but I ended up with a completely dysfunctional xorg right > now. The effect is, that for fglrx there seems to be some ABI > incompatibility such that X does not start (ABI 2.0 of fglrx vs. ABI > 5.0 of Xorg) and when falling back to other drivers like radeon, > radeonhd or even vesa, then the display goes black as soon as X starts > and nothing happens anymore, switching back to the console is not > possible, and the machine can only be operated via remote login. > > The installed (and relevant AFAICS) xorg packages are as follows: > > xserver-xorg 1:7.4+1 > xserver-xorg-core 2:1.6.1-1 > xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.2.1-1 > xserver-xorg-input-kbd 1:1.3.2-3 > xserver-xorg-input-mouse 1:1.4.0-2 > xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 1.1.0-1 > xserver-xorg-video-radeon 1:6.12.2-1 > xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd 1.2.5-1 > xserver-xorg-video-vesa 1:2.2.0-1 > fglrx-* 1:9-4-1 > > As an example I'll attach the xorg.conf file for fglrx together with > the Xorg.0.log output for fglrx as well as the Xorg.0.log output when I > just replace Driver "fglrx" with Driver "radeonhd". I can also provide > the logs for drivers radeon and vesa, but I doubt they shed any more > light onto this issue than the radeonhd log already does. > > I would be very grateful for any help regarding this issue! > > Greetings, > Stefan > Hi,
you'll be sorry to hear that your card is now a "legacy" one according to AMD/ATI. They dropped support for a bunch of card with the 9.4 release. http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/legacy/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx?type=2.4.2&product=2.4.2.3.9&lang=English So I guess the Sid version is too new for you, you can install an older fglrx (9.3) or stick with the free driver. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org