Re: Radeon opengl driver problem - buster

[Jeremy Ardley]

On 10/1/21 12:03 pm, Felix Miata wrote:

You might be better off removing that file. A newer technology DDX driver than 
the
Radeon is actually the upstream default:
<https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/mrmazda-1035595/amd-intel-and-nvidia-x-graphics-driver-primer-38306/>
# inxi GISy
System:
   Host: gx78b Kernel: 4.19.0-13-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Trinity R14.0.9
   Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Graphics:
   Device-1: AMD Caicos [Radeon HD 6450/7450/8450 / R5 230 OEM] driver: radeon
   v: kernel
   Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: loaded: modesetting
   resolution: 1920x1200~60Hz
   OpenGL: renderer: AMD CAICOS (DRM 2.50.0 / 4.19.0-13-amd64 LLVM 7.0.1)
   v: 3.3 Mesa 18.3.6
Info:...Shell: Bash pinxi: 3.2.01-1

I did

sudo rm -f /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/*
sudo apt remove xserver-xorg-video-radeon

and rebooted. I got

inxi -Fxz

(...)

Graphics:

  Device-1: AMD Caicos PRO [Radeon HD 7450] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: radeon
  v: kernel bus ID: 09:00.0
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
  resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: N/A v: N/A direct render: N/A



I'm not sure what to do next

--
Jeremy

So X11 is running the modesetting driver but not opengl, while the ASUSTeK driver still seems to be radeon.

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