On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 09:04:18AM -0600, John W Foster wrote: > > I had a similar issue & I found > that I needed to install the correct firmware from the testing version > of Debian. The developers have split off a lot of the firmware into > sort of modules instead of having all of them in the kernel image. > Install firmware-linux, & the dependent free & non free drivers. You > may need to look at the other firmeware drivers to find what is needed > for your specific hardware. Hope this helps. My issues was an older > ati-rage videoboard that the drivers were taken out of the kernel.
Thank you very much for taking te trouble to reply. My problem has away after an apt-get update && apt-get install linux-firmware. There are some error messages during bootup but they are about udev. Thanks to all the others who offered helpful suggestions as well. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100216231357.ga2...@imap://www.gnubies.com
