On Wed,17.Jun.09, 14:30:41, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > > (EE) RADEONHD(0): [dri] CP_INIT failed > > (EE) RADEONHD(0): RHDDRIFinishScreenInit: RHDDRIKernelInit Failed. > > I had that problem before and fixed it by installing 'firmware-linux', which > contains (among others) the firmwares for the following ATI cards: > > * Radeon R100-family CP microcode, version unknown Radeon R200-family CP > * microcode, version unknown Radeon R300-family CP microcode, version > unknown > * Radeon R400-family CP microcode, version unknown Radeon R500-family CP > * microcode, version unknown Radeon RS690 CP microcode, version unknown > > I really wonder why this package is not a dependency of the > xserver-xorg-radeon{,hd} packages. If the installation of that package solved > that problem for you I will file a bug against the xserver-xorg-video-* > packages that "depend" on it.
Packages in 'main' can not depend on packages in 'non-free' (or they have to go to 'contrib'), they can only 'suggest' them: $ apt-cache show xserver-xorg-video-radeon | grep firmware Suggests: firmware-linux Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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