[ltp] Radeon/ATI driver fixed in Debian/Sid

Carlos Moffat linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:55 -0400


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On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 16:56 +0100, Hamish Marson wrote:
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> Carlos Moffat wrote:
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> > Hi Everybody,
> >
> > In case you're interested, a new version of the ATI driver was
> > uploaded to Debian last night. The new version fixes (at least in
> > my t42p) the freeze with Xorg 6.9/7 that had forced me to stay with
> > 6.8.2 or the fglrx driver.
> >
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> Well, I just updated & managed to startx & then startup thunderbird
> without crashing (Usually it locked up about the time the first xterm
> started after KDE came up).
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> Looks a lot beter so far. Now to try & get DRI working... Hmmm... Did
> the r300 stuff get included? (Not that I've looked yet).Hope so, it
> works fine on my gentoo box with a saphire card.
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Well, DRI is not enabled:

(WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled
(II) RADEON(0): Render acceleration unsupported on Radeon 9500/9700 and
newer.
(II) RADEON(0): Render acceleration disabled


Is this what you mean?

Carlos


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> > Cheers, Carlos
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