On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 12:52 +0200, Dan wrote: > That means that AMD will not support Linux and X anymore? Is it better > to use the opensource driver?
No, they don't update drivers for aged graphics, if you buy new ATI cards, they provide drivers for current versions of X. It's likely that the updated version of X is ok for the proprietary driver you're using. For my ATI I need to use the open source driver, but I can forget acceleration for some simple tasks, e.g. a transparent Xfce4 terminal is a PITA, so I can't use it, Google Earth OTOH is ok. I experienced NVIDIA as the better graphics regarding to the proprietary and open source drivers, but since I use my machine for audio production, I chose the graphics regarding to impact to audio, so I don't use always the same graphics, but tend to switch it from time to time. > I checked, and the kernel has not been updated. That's strange, if you downgraded to the old version of X and the kernel version still is the same, but it doesn't work, then something is fishy. Was menu.cfg regenerated? Perhaps there's a bad option. Do you use a xorg.conf? *?* I didn't read the bug reports, at the moment I anyway use Arch Linux and can't help with Debian specific issues that much. However, your issue seems not to be Debian related, but perhaps the bug reports say something different and I'm mistaken ;). IMO you should try to solve the issue by repairing what is broken now, but I don't know what is important for you, so reinstalling Debian might be the better solution for you. Before you update, you should backup your Linux in the future. Regards, Ralf PS: Please reply to the list only. TIA -- 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/1366888225.907.14.camel@archlinux
