On Mit, 2013-01-30 at 14:48 +0100, Christian Stoller wrote:
>
> since the update of the free radeon driver from version 6.14.4-5 to
> 6.14.4-6 Xorg refuses to start.
[...]
> Just downgrading the –ati and –radeon package again to -5, everything
> is working fine.
From the log file:
> [ 994.7
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 16:16:26 +0100, Patrick Matthäi wrote:
> Hi Michel,
>
> > 6.14.4-5 doesn't support your Radeon GPU, so you're using the generic
> > driver from xserver-xorg-video-fbdev in that case.
> > I suspect your kernel is missing upstream fixes for your GPU.
>
> True. But that also
>>> So the -radeon driver should not be selected for this device, or if
>>> the issue is located in the Linux kernel, the patches should be
>>> backported, so that it works.
>>>
>> See
>> http://womble.decadent.org.uk/blog/whats-in-the-linux-kernel-for-debian-70-wheezy-part-4.html
>> (testing with