On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 10:12:10PM -0400, Steve Burkhart wrote: > While we're on the topic of display driver problems, does anyone know why > the ATI Radeon 7500 found in many iBook G3 models is non functional with > Xorg? After installing the non free firmware, the screen just blinks, and > eventually freezes. I've encountered this problem on 500Mhz, 600MHz, > 700MHz, 800MHz, and 900MHz iBooks G3's, and the common theme among them is > that they all feature the ATI Mobility Radeon 7500, with either 16MB of > VRAM, or 32MB of VRAM.
Have you installed firmware-amd-graphics package in particular? That graphics card should work with the radeon kernel module and most likely requires the radeon/R100_cp.bin firmware which is in the aforementioned debian package. Cheers, Michael.
