peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > > Two points. Given that the intention in Squeeze is for X to be > configured automatically and given that this video hardware > apparently needs firmware-linux-nonfree installation be automated? > If so, failure of automatic installation of firmware-linux-nonfree > is a bug.
now you have decided to install this - it usually installs with the free xorg driver, so you must have caused the bug by installing the ati non-free. It's tricky but working well, I've configured many pc's and notebooks with ati > > Once the firmware is available, the second problem is that the X > display is broken. To my naive thinking, appears that the automated > setting for the display size doesn't match the hardware properly. > Fixing it is another question. Did you remove the xorg.conf now? Or what is there ... in /etc/X11? Also did you ever look into he logs in /var/log/Xorg.0.log cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE regards -- 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/jb95tc$c5i$1...@dough.gmane.org
