On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:52:15 +0200, lavcina wrote: > to start it should not be unmentioned that my linux knowledge is in > development. So your experience is highly needed. For some reasons I > want to use the debian squeeze OS. Might be that you feel the same > vocation. Now I have installed a debian squeeze OS with the gnome > environment and one with the kde GUI. Of course with a seperate home > partition.
Why "of course"? I don't have a separate /home partitions and still happy :-) > My grafics card, a radeon hd 4850, does not work acceptable under gnome > but works fine ( sometimes ) then I start the kde Desktop. What problems are you facing in GNOME? Be the more specific you can. > I suspect that something has to be adjusted in the configuration files > because the radeon driver ( the free version ) does not work right from > the beginning. Sometimes the HDMI device isn't probed right and has > difficulties with the EDID number. I use two Monitors one connected via > HDMI and a smaller one by VGA I don't see where the problem with HDMI is. Can you describe what are the symptoms? Is it related to resolution, flickering, output not detected or bad positioning...? > I tried to create a xorg.conf file but the result is not convincing. I > will append to this message the Xlog output and the xorg.conf.new file > contents. (...) I would try with no "xorg.conf" file at all which OTOH, should not be required by now. I will leave the lines I find relevant... > Current Operating System: Linux xiuxiu 2.6.39-bpo.2-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Jul 26 > 10:35:23 UTC 2011 x86_64 So you are using a backported kernel... > (WW) RADEON(0): Color tiling is not yet supported on R600/R700 > (II) RADEON(0): KMS Color Tiling: disabled (...) > (II) RADEON(0): Output DVI-0 has no monitor section > (II) RADEON(0): Output HDMI-0 has no monitor section > (II) RADEON(0): Output VGA-0 has no monitor section (...) > (II) RADEON(0): Output DVI-0 disconnected > (II) RADEON(0): Output HDMI-0 connected > (II) RADEON(0): Output VGA-0 connected (...) So you are using the VGA and HDMI ports, right? Using digital outputs is usually recommended (meaning, dvi would be better that vga). > (WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled > (II) RADEON(0): Acceleration disabled To get 3D capabilities you may need to install some binary blob (firmware-linux-nonfree) from the non-free repository. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- 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/k2t1sk$jks$1...@ger.gmane.org
