On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 08:13:33 -0500, Carl wrote in message <20111126131333.ga5...@panix.com>:
> On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 02:06:00PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > ..are you using the "radeon" driver? > > Yes. > > > (2 more alternatives to try, "radeonhd" and > > "fglrx", I have no experience with those.) > > Neither exists in wheezy, according to aptitude. The radeonhd > homepage says that most distros are now dumping it in favor of radeon. ..we're all ok with that. ;o) > > ..do you use "non-UTF-8" fonts or locales? Try go "UTF-8-only." > > Can you explain in more detail? I haven't done much with this in the > past and web searches are hard when my screen looks like this: ..try plug in another screen and see what happens. ..run 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' and pick or verify you have picked all your relevant UTF-8 locales, you may want to toss out your "ISO-8859-*" locales. Next, run aptitude and trawl 'n haul in "all" UTF-8 fonts, and make those your apps, wm, DE etc defaults. > > > See screenshots here: http://panix.com/~carlf/files > > > ..show us lshw's *-display:0 section. > > > *-display > description: VGA compatible controller > product: RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series] > vendor: ATI Technologies Inc > physical id: 5 > bus info: pci@0000:01:05.0 > version: 00 > width: 64 bits > clock: 33MHz > capabilities: pm msi vga_controller bus_master > cap_list rom configuration: driver=radeon latency=64 > resources: irq:18 memory:d0000000-dfffffff > memory:f0100000-f010ffff ioport:9000(size=256) > memory:f0000000-f00fffff *-pci:1 > > > (Indentation above as shown by lshw.) > > Thanks. ..and 'xrandr --verbose' says? ..also chk KMS, http://www.google.com/search?q=Debian+radeon+KMS is a good starting point, http://wiki.debian.org/KernelModesetting and will be set by default in /etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf: "options radeon modeset=1" ..chk the other ones (/etc/modprobe.d/*.conf) too for conflicting configs or fb etc drivers that should have been blacklisted. ..also chk bug reports, a fix is probably on its way, I saw mention of "linux-3.1 not working with radeon." ..I had a vaguely similar issue a coupla years back that I fixed making new and slightly slower modelines, I was pushing my card too hard and got white flickering, but only in FlightGear. FG is fairly tough on graphics hw and may help diagnose it. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111128020115.7b8dc...@nb6.lan
