On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:52:04 -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 01:11:50PM +0000, the estimable Camale?n wrote: > >> Maybe because radeonhd has been superseded by radeon driver: > > Yeah, I see that now.
Although it seems the driver is still available at Xorg's site (and so you can compile by yourself) I think it is better to stick with radeon driver and report anything that is not working to either Debian BTS of Xorg's bugzilla. >> Hum... no, it's not. It seems to be only available for one architecture >> (m68k). > > That must be what my web search found. Maybe it should be removed? http://packages.debian.org/sid/xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd Mmm, maybe it is still there to avoid breaking another packages that still depend on it :-? >> Did you install the firmware package? > > What firmware package? Some ATI cards need "firmware-linux-nonfree" package to enable 3D acceleration: http://wiki.debian.org/AtiHowTo#Installing_proprietary_firmware If it is required, there will be a message at your dmesg or Xorg log file warning about it. > I have an actual point: why should I have to know that I must install at > least three packages which don't depend on each other to get GLX > support? Surely that's the sort of thing that should happen > automagically? Magic is scarce in these days and your linux box needs a bit of user action to be properly setup, mainly when it comes to configure VGA cards :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- 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/pan.2012.01.01.18.36...@gmail.com
