On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:57:59 -0400 (EDT), Joel Roth wrote: > > FWIW, here is my dmesg output regarding my ATI Radeon 3100 chip (RS780MC). > I wonder about the 'loading firmware' bit, which seems to fail. > > [ 1478.833236] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 > [ 1478.934354] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled. > [ 1478.934483] radeon 0000:01:05.0: setting latency timer to 64 > [ 1478.939239] [drm] radeon: Initializing kernel modesetting. > [ 1478.939410] [drm] register mmio base: 0x96300000 > [ 1478.939415] [drm] register mmio size: 65536 > [ 1478.945526] ATOM BIOS: Tos_SCT10AP_MC > [ 1478.945576] [drm] Clocks initialized ! > [ 1478.945969] [drm] Detected VRAM RAM=256M, BAR=256M > [ 1478.945978] [drm] RAM width 32bits DDR > [ 1478.946151] [TTM] Zone kernel: Available graphics memory: 899812 kiB. > [ 1478.946186] [drm] radeon: 256M of VRAM memory ready > [ 1478.946191] [drm] radeon: 512M of GTT memory ready. > [ 1478.946257] [drm] radeon: irq initialized. > [ 1478.946263] [drm] GART: num cpu pages 131072, num gpu pages 131072 > [ 1478.948761] [drm] Loading RS780 Microcode > [ 1478.949103] platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: requesting radeon/RS780_pfp.bin > [ 1479.022552] platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: requesting radeon/RS780_me.bin > [ 1479.047423] platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: requesting radeon/R600_rlc.bin > [ 1479.057460] r600_cp: Failed to load firmware "radeon/R600_rlc.bin" > [ 1479.057476] [drm:r600_startup] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware! > [ 1479.057483] radeon 0000:01:05.0: disabling GPU acceleration > [ 1479.057510] radeon 0000:01:05.0: ffff88006df24000 unpin not necessary > [ 1479.057517] radeon 0000:01:05.0: ffff88006df24000 unpin not necessary > [ 1479.057530] [drm] Enabling audio support > [ 1479.057850] [drm] Radeon Display Connectors > [ 1479.057855] [drm] Connector 0: > ....
Aha! failed to load firmware! That may be your problem. You should always follow up on such messages. Do you have package firmware-linux-nonfree installed? If so, you need to install it. It is in the non-free section of the Debian archive; so make sure that the "non-free" and "contrib" sections of the archive are present in your /etc/apt/sources.list file. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/123733784.596256.1283548289546.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com