actually it does if memory serves me correctly. IIRC this was a misconfiguration of something but I dont remember what Off the top of my head. Has nothing to do with flgrx or the X11 config file.
On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Debian Bug Tracking System < ow...@bugs.debian.org> wrote: > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > which was filed against the firmware-linux-nonfree package: > > #795318: Subject: firmware-linux-nonfree: kernel modeswitching on radeon > hardware broken > > It has been closed by Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk>. > > Their explanation is attached below along with your original report. > If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a > better one in a separate message then please contact Ben Hutchings < > b...@decadent.org.uk> by > replying to this email. > > > -- > 795318: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=795318 > Debian Bug Tracking System > Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> > To: 795318-d...@bugs.debian.org > Cc: > Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 00:24:35 +0200 > Subject: Re: Bug#795318: Subject: firmware-linux-nonfree: kernel > modeswitching on radeon hardware broken > On Wed, 2015-08-12 at 16:57 -0500, richard jasmin wrote: > > > > Package: firmware-linux-nonfree > > Version: 0.44 > > Severity: important > > > > when using fglrx for 3d acceleration all modeswitching provided by the > non-free > > kernel module is moot point. There simply is no vterm at all to switch > to.If > > for any reason X11 breaks you are up shit creek and must play > whack-a-mole with > > the hard reset button to recover. This may be a config issue but the > config > > needs to be posted somewhere so people know what to do. Using PITCAIRN > > hardware(HD 7850 x2). > > This has nothing to do with firmware-linux-nonfree. > > Ben. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: richard jasmin <frazzledj...@gmail.com> > To: sub...@bugs.debian.org > Cc: > Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 16:57:42 -0500 > Subject: Subject: firmware-linux-nonfree: kernel modeswitching on radeon > hardware broken > > Package: firmware-linux-nonfree > Version: 0.44 > Severity: important > > when using fglrx for 3d acceleration all modeswitching provided by the > non-free > kernel module is moot point. There simply is no vterm at all to switch > to.If > for any reason X11 breaks you are up shit creek and must play whack-a-mole > with > the hard reset button to recover. This may be a config issue but the config > needs to be posted somewhere so people know what to do. Using PITCAIRN > hardware(HD 7850 x2). > > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: stretch/sid > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (500, 'testing') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 4.0.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > > firmware-linux-nonfree depends on no packages. > > firmware-linux-nonfree recommends no packages. > > Versions of packages firmware-linux-nonfree suggests: > ii initramfs-tools 0.120 > > -- no debconf information > > >
