The irony is that on the i686 side, my Thinkpad T42 features the same GPU, and it works just fine with Debian unstable.
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020, 10:35 PM Steve Burkhart <benzguy1...@gmail.com> wrote: > firnware-amd-graphics is installed when firmware-linux-nonfree is > installed, so yes. > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2020, 10:25 PM Michael Cree <mc...@orcon.net.nz> wrote: > >> 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. >> >
