On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Marcos Marado <mindboosterno...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello again, > > 2010/12/17 Alex Deucher <alexdeuc...@gmail.com>: >> 2010/12/16 Marcos Marado <mindboosterno...@gmail.com>: >>> 2010/12/16 Michel Dänzer <daen...@debian.org>: >>>> On Mit, 2010-12-15 at 21:29 +0000, Marcos Marado wrote: >>>>> After installing on this machine squeeze from the debian-installer >>>>> beta 2, I noticed that the >>>>> screen sometimes flickers (opening a konsole an maximizing it will >>>>> result in a more frequent flickering). >>>>> >>>>> Searching about it, I was led to believe that this could be a kms >>>>> problem, so I deactivated it. >>>>> Now the flicker is gone, but the computer is awefully slow, and a top >>>>> shows Xorg eating 100% CPU. >>>> >>>> [...] >>>> >>>>> [ 17.750916] [drm:radeon_do_init_cp] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware! >>>> >>>> [...] >>>> >>>>> Versions of packages xserver-xorg-video-radeon suggests: >>>>> pn firmware-linux <none> (no description available) >>>> >>>> Does installing this package and rebooting help for any of your >>>> problems? >>> >>> Thank you very much for your quick reply. I should have looked into the >>> logs... >>> Installed firmware-linux, and now the 100% CPU issue is gone. >>> Unfortunately, the flickering issue (more often on black screens) is still >>> present with kms, so for now I'm sticking with having it disabled. >> >> Try booting with radeon.new_pll=0 and/or radeon.disp_priority=2 on the >> kernel command line in grub. > > Yup, just did one test: turned modeset on and booted with > radeon.new_pll=0 and the flickering is gone. >
OK, this should be fixed in 2.6.37 then. Alex > Feel free to ask me anything else you think it might be useful. > > Best regards, > -- > Marcos Marado > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
