Ben Hutchings wrote: > You presumably haven't installed the firmware which is needed for full > functionality of AMD Radeon graphics chips. This is in the > firmware-linux-nonfree package, which is not included or installed by > default since it is not free software.
Correct. I have not installed it as it was not needed in Squeeze and was upgrading from Squeeze. However if that improves the situation in Wheezy/Sid then I will be satisified to have a solution. (Even if it has all of the baggage of non-free.) I will test that soonest. > The current Linux kernel packages in unstable have a change to the > radeon driver which should improve the fallback behaviour when the > firmware is not installed. I'm assuming this will work for you, and > therefore merging with the earlier bug reports for this problem. Even though I reported against Wheezy I did test both Sid and Experimental kernels. Neither the linux kernel from Sid nor 3.6 from experimental had any improvement. Thanks! Bob
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