Hi, I am struggling with my Radeon HD 3850 / RV670 AGP ever since I have upgraded to XOrg 7.5 which is (still) not supported by the proprietary driver. The OSS Radeon driver is *really* slow. Switching between workplaces or (full screen) applications sometimes take more than 30 seconds. More applications lead to more seconds.
I have tried every suggestion on the internet that I could find, saw all kind of video effects, including no video at all, but nothing worked so far. There are several thing that I notice: 1. In several postings I saw the mentioning of the need to load firmware. I have installed all the firmware-linux packages, including the non-free which contains the relevant Radeon firmware. I see some firmware getting loaded (eg for my Broadcom NIC) but no attempt is made to load the firmware for my Radeon card. I have fiddled with radeon.modeset=1/0 settings, both on /etc/modprobe.d conf files, as manually loading/unloading the radeon modules, but none of the attempts leaded to a working system. Should the firmware get loaded, and if so, how should I do that? 2. In the XOrg.0.log it says: (EE) RADEON(0): [agp] Could not bind (EE) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP failed to initialize. Disabling the DRI. (II) RADEON(0): [agp] You may want to make sure the agpgart kernel module is loaded before the radeon kernel module. The agpgart kernel module is compiled in ( a change from 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 which used a module, whereas 2.6.32-3-amd has it compiled in). But disabling DRI disables the acceleration I believe. Is that correct? 3. I have tried both the radeon and radeonhd driver without any success. Both drivers appear to e working. Is it correct that the radeon driver is preferred for my card? The last question: is there anyone who actually has this card working, with 2/3D acceleration? Or am I trying to do something that just is not possible (yet)? TIA My system is a fully updated Squeeze (testing) Debian AMD64: linux-image-2.6.32-9 firmware-linux 0.23 firmware-linux-free 2.6.32-9 firmware-linux-nonfree 0.23 xorg 7.5-3 xserver-xorg-video-radeon 6.12.5-1 xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd 3.0-2 mesa (dri / glx) 7.7-4 -- Groeten, Joost Kraaijeveld Askesis B.V. Molukkenstraat 14 6524NB Nijmegen tel: 024-3888063 / 06-51855277 fax: 024-3608416 web: www.askesis.nl -- 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/1268813491.2620.41.ca...@panoramix.askesis.nl
