[Trisquel-users] Radeon drivers in Trisquel 4.0

[jtlebeau]

Hi all,

This morning, I booted up trisquel_4.0-BETA-20100519_amd64.iso on my laptop,  
an MSI GX710. It has an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 GPU. Everything seems to  
work great (sound, wireless, etc.)! However, I have a question about the  
graphics drivers. Should I be using the radeon or radeonhd driver? The  
package descriptions seemed to indicate the latter. If so, how would I load  
it? I installed the radeonhd package with synaptic, ran 'dpkg-reconfigure  
xorg-server', and restarted gdm, but the xorg log file seemed to indicate  
that it was still loading the radeon driver.

I found a wiki topic at Gentoo stating that the radeon driver has superseded  
the radeonhd driver. I also found a thread here about these drivers in  
general, but I thought it worth asking again for some more specific info  
about the current status of Free radeon drivers in Trisquel 4.0, especially  
regarding this card.

Thank you!

Jake