So I wanted to activate video acceleration on my Gateway LT3119U netbook, which uses the Radeon X1270 chipset (RS690M). I installed the package firmware-linux-nonfree and restarted X.
Before the upgrade, GNOME3 reported that it couldn't fully activate because of my system's limitations. Afterward it activated and immediately corrupted the video horribly. I switched to a "fallback" session, which will remain uncorrupted for up to two minutes before becoming corrupted somewhat less horribly. Then I tried Openbox, which takes a few minutes longer to corrupt, then becomes utterly unreadable. See screenshots here: http://panix.com/~carlf/files Short of reverting to unaccelerated video, any suggestions? I'm running Debian Wheezy, above system with 2 gigabytes of RAM, using the AMD64 kernel. LSPCI reports: root@cf-gw:~# lspci | grep -i vga 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series] No xorg.conf at the moment. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- 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/20111126123734.ga7...@panix.com
