Hello, On 8/18/09, thveillon.debian <thveillon.deb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I recently bought a HP 6730s with a ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430 graphic > chip. I run Squeeze/Sid AMD64 just like you, and with 2.6.26* kernel and > the associated fglrx I ran into all kind of troubles: impossibility to > switch between virtual consoles, acpi going havoc with computer sometime > not halting, bunch of weird errors in dmesg and Xorg.o.log, screen never > coming up after kdm restart... I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.30*, xorg > and fglrx from Sid, and it's working like a charm. It's working great > with the radeon driver too, with full 2D acceleration, but 3D > performances are still really poor. I can restart kdm without problem > and switch back and forth virtual consoles. > > Maybe the kernel/fglrx couple is just too old, and pre 9.5 fglrx are > known to have all kind of issues with virtual consoles switching. > In a previous e-mail you mentioned this: "if you are running a 2.6.30 kernel the testing fglrx won't build, you have to upgrade xorg and fglrx stuff to Sid."
Does the sid xorg still apply? I would not be ready at the moment to experiment with a sid X. Moreover, I found out that issuing halt/reboot from a console within X would more or less shut the system cleanly (at least no kernel panics and stuff), which would mean that my immediate issue is solved. Thank you for the suggestions Liviu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
