On 8/2/2015 at 5:53 PM, "Chris Edwards" <cedwards.deb...@cedwards.geek.nz> 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. > > >...
If /lib/firmware/radeon/R420_cp.bin exists then you've installed firmware-linux-nonfree, as you can see from https://packages.debian.org/jessie/firmware-linux-free and https://packages.debian.org/jessie/firmware-linux-nonfree -- 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/20150802113636.4b4d8e2...@smtp.hushmail.com
