On Sun, Aug 02, 2015 at 09:52:49PM +1200, Chris Edwards wrote: > Hi Chris (ha, maybe I should have posted directly to the DunLUG list!)... > > On 02/08/15 18:39, Chris Bannister wrote: > >On Sun, Aug 02, 2015 at 05:55:11PM +1200, Chris Edwards wrote: > >>I've recently installed Debian Jessie 64-bit on my (admittedly rather old) > >>dual Opteron workstation, and I'm experiencing pretty bad performance in > >>X11. > >>[snip] > > > >I'm guessing it's a driver issue. > > > >What is the output of: > > > >apt-cache policy firmware-linux-nonfree > > firmware-linux-nonfree: > Installed: (none) > Candidate: 0.43 > Version table: > 0.43 0 > 500 http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/ jessie/non-free amd64 Packages > > > Should I set things up for installing the firmware-linux-nonfree package? I > do already see this in the kernel messages: > > [ 14.145030] radeon 0000:02:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware > radeon/R420_cp.bin > > and /lib/firmware/radeon/R420_cp.bin exists.
Hmmm, I wonder if that's the free stuff without acceleration. I would install firmware-linux-nonfree and check the logs to see that the nonfree version is loading. As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, are you running GNOME? This seems to *need* acceleration features to run properly. So you could attack the problem from the other side of the fence and install a desktop that doesn't require acceleration e.g. xfce, lxde etc. The choice is of course, yours. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- 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/20150802105144.GA6494@tal
