On Пн., 2012-02-13 at 00:16 -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > The Radeon firmware is only provided by AMD in binary form, without > source code, so we cannot in good conscience include it in Debian and > promise to support it. We do not have the relevant information about > how it works or ability to tweak its behavior. > > However, it is useful software in practice so it is distributed on > Debian mirrors in the non-free section of the archive. It is also > included in a non-official installer image: > > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/ > > Could you say a little more about the symptoms you experienced? Do > programs relying on GPU acceleration run slowly or do they crash? If > the latter, this is definitely a bug and would be important to fix --- > Debian should not require external extras to be non-crashy. If the > former, there is likely a documentation bug in that you did not know > why acceleration was disabled and where to look for the missing > software that would speed things up. If you can remember where you > looked expecting answers, that would be very useful so we can add some > relevant documentation for the next person. > > Thanks and sorry for the trouble. > > Hope that helps, > Jonathan
Without firmware-linux-nonfree package, GPU acceleration not work, GNOME Shell not work and dual monitor worked as single monitor. This is unusable for me, and I am not testing other software anymore. I am very surprised, I thinking that if I not will install "fglrx", I use open driver "Mesa - Gallium".
