On 2010-06-17 19:00 +0200, Matteo Riva wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote: > >> In the subject line you talk about ATI fglrx. So what graphics card do >> you have? > > I'm sorry, my card is a Mobility Radeon 3430. > >> There is a new kernel in squeeze that includes shiny KMS framebuffer >> drivers for both Radeon and Nvidia cards. These are incompatible with >> the proprietary blobs from ATI and Nvidia. > > Can you point me to more information on this topic?
For Radeon cards, http://wiki.debian.org/KernelModesetting has some information. > I'm looking for an > alternative to the FOSS radeonhd driver which works but uses too much > CPU (and my laptop suffers from overheating) and has limited > configuration options for external displays. You should use the radeon driver instead, radeonhd is incompatible with KMS (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=575226). Make sure to install the firmware-linux-nonfree package. Powersaving for Radeon cards is work in progress and requires the latest and greatest kernel (2.6.35-rc3 at the moment). Sven -- 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/87wrtxlge7....@turtle.gmx.de
