Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com): > On 17/04/2015, Liam O'Toole <liam.p.oto...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 2015-04-16, Bret Busby <bret.bu...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 17/04/2015, Ric Moore <wayward4...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > <SNIP> > > > >>> Have you tried "catalyst" for the AMD setup?? Under AMD Mobility > >>> Product Family your 6000 series is listed. > >>> http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDCatalyst14-9LINReleaseNotes.aspx > >>> > >> > >> Hello. > >> > >> I assume something bad is in the source code of that web page (it is > >> aspx, so, proprietary MS stuff), but, with two web browsers - Arora > >> and rekonq, running on Debian 6, I can only see a bit at the op of the > >> web page - no scroll bar or any way to get to the important stuff > >> lower down on the web page. > >> > >> Publishing a web page about Linux stuff, in MS only format, is a bit > >> weird. > >> > >> It is kind of like the manuafacturer (AMD) wants to hide its Linux > >> stuff, from Linux users. > > > > It is nothing of the sort. The site Works fine in iceweasel on jessie. > > It should work on wheezy, which has the same version of iceweasel, too. > > > > Any browser you run in squeeze was EOL'ed years ago, from a security > > perspective if nothing else. > > > > > What it comes down to, has nothing to do with the version number of Debian.
I don't think that was Liam's point. You said you were running a squeeze browser, 21 lines above and again 6 lines below this one. That would be a security risk were it not LTS. > What it came down to, is, the web page bien aspx shite, it requires > javascript (javashite). > > I installed a 12.x version of opera (from my Debian 6 desktop system), > on this (Debian 7, running on the Acer E5-521-238Q) system, and left > javascript enabled, and the web page works. > > In going to the Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit option, as such packages are > usually .deb packages, and so, tend to work on Debian (which is how I > got Seamonkey installed and working on this system, from an old > version of Seamonkey.deb, that I had obtained), I downloaded and tried > to install the package. I'm not sure I can tell what package you mean here. > I got a dependency problem; > "Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: fglrx-core" > > So, I seached in Synaptic, for fglrx, and found > > fglrx-driver; But that isn't fglrx-core is it? Don't you need something like fglrx-core_14.201-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb > " > non-free ATI/AMD RadeonHD display driver > > FGLRX / AMD Catalyst is the non-free proprietary display driver for the > ATI/AMD RadeonHD and FireGL graphics cards. As an alternative, you may try > the newest free driver xserver-xorg-video-radeon. > > This driver release supports the following graphics adapter families: > AMD Radeon HD 7000, AMD Radeon HD 6000, and AMD Radeon HD 5000. > " > > So, I searched within Synaptic, for xserver-xorg-video-radeon . > > I found that xserver-xorg-video-ati and xserver-xorg-video-radeon, are > already installed. I take it that's on your wheezy system. > The first has, in its package description; > > " > X.Org X server -- AMD/ATI display driver wrapper > > This package provides the 'ati' driver for the AMD/ATI Mach64, Rage128, > Radeon, FireGL, FireMV, FirePro and FireStream series. This driver is > actually a wrapper that loads one of the 'mach64', 'r128' or 'radeon' > sub-drivers depending on the hardware. > These sub-drivers are brought through package dependencies. > > Users of Rage, Mach, or Radeon boards may remove this package only if > they use Driver "r128", "mach64", or "radeon" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf > instead of relying on autodetection. > " > > and, for the secomd; > > " > X.Org X server -- AMD/ATI Radeon display driver > > This package provides the 'radeon' driver for the AMD/ATI cards. The > following chips should be supported: R100, RV100, RS100, RV200, RS200, > RS250, R200, RV250, RV280, RS300, RS350, RS400/RS480, R300, R350, R360, > RV350, RV360, RV370, RV380, RV410, R420, R423/R430, R480/R481, > RV505/RV515/RV516/RV550, R520, RV530/RV560, RV570/R580, > RS600/RS690/RS740, R600, RV610/RV630, RV620/RV635, RV670, RS780/RS880, > RV710/RV730, RV740/RV770/RV790, CEDAR, REDWOOD, JUNIPER, CYPRESS, > HEMLOCK, PALM, SUMO/SUMO2, BARTS, TURKS, CAICOS, CAYMAN, ARUBA. > " > > So, for Debian 7, two driver packages for AMD/ATI Radeon video things, > were already installed, but, they, apparently, do not cover the > applicable video controller. But we were expecting that weren't we? I thought the problem was that you have this nice new hardware. > And, the manufacturer's driver, apparently, can not be installed, due to > "Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: fglrx-core" > > The Synaptic list of packages, returned in searching for fglrx, does > not include the unsatisfiable dependency package; fglrx-core. I don't know what synaptic is. Are you searching the Debian wheezy archives? Might it be worth trying with jessie (I can't remember if you said you'd tried this). Cheers, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150417061657.GA22634@alum
