Hi,
I have a MSI GX70 laptop with Debian 8.4 on it. It has two graphics chips,
a Radeon HD 8970M and a Radeon HD 8650G. The CPU is a AMD A10-5750M.
I'd like to be able to use the Radeon HD 8970M, but right now, my laptop is
using software rendering (Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe, according to the
'glxinfo'
command).
When I boot the computer, I see the message "*ERROR* radeon kernel
modesetting
for R600 or later requires firmware-linux-nonfree" twice (probably
because of
the two graphics chips). So, I tried installing that
firmware-linux-nonfree package.
After installing firmware-linux-nonfree, I see an error like "ring test
0 failed"
when I turn the laptop on. The laptop waits for a few seconds, then reboots
itself, and then the error occurs again. I've fixed that error by
booting in
recovery mode and removing the firmware-linux-nonfree package. But now I'm
back where I started.
Does anyone know why this "ring test 0 failed" error could be happening? Or
should I try a different approach to getting my 8970M chip to work?
Thanks!
- Justin
