On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 10:32 +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > One of the main attractions [for me] of 2.6.30 was the inclusion of the > DRM interface for radeon GPUs, but that doesn't work in debian's kernel > build, apparently due to missing radeon microcode(?). > > Here's a diff of dmesg output; "-" is a self-built 2.6.30 kernel, "+" is > debian's linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64: > > [drm] Initialized radeon 1.30.0 20080528 for 0000:01:05.0 on minor 0 > [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map > [drm] Loading RS780 CP Microcode > -[drm] Loading RS780 PFP Microcode > -[drm] Resetting GPU > -[drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs > +platform r600_cp.0: firmware: requesting radeon/RS780_cp.bin > +r600_cp: Failed to load firmware "radeon/RS780_cp.bin" > +[drm:r600_do_init_cp] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware! > > I suppose that maybe the microcode is missing to some debian policy > (e.g. wrt binary blobs or whatever), but... is there any procedure one > can follow to make this work with the debian kernel build?
You need the new firmware-linux package. Which, er, hasn't been uploaded yet. Let me fix that for you... Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Never attribute to conspiracy what can adequately be explained by stupidity.
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