Hello again, 2010/12/17 Alex Deucher <alexdeuc...@gmail.com>: > 2010/12/16 Marcos Marado <mindboosterno...@gmail.com>: >> 2010/12/16 Michel Dänzer <daen...@debian.org>: >>> On Mit, 2010-12-15 at 21:29 +0000, Marcos Marado wrote: >>>> After installing on this machine squeeze from the debian-installer >>>> beta 2, I noticed that the >>>> screen sometimes flickers (opening a konsole an maximizing it will >>>> result in a more frequent flickering). >>>> >>>> Searching about it, I was led to believe that this could be a kms >>>> problem, so I deactivated it. >>>> Now the flicker is gone, but the computer is awefully slow, and a top >>>> shows Xorg eating 100% CPU. >>> >>> [...] >>> >>>> [ 17.750916] [drm:radeon_do_init_cp] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware! >>> >>> [...] >>> >>>> Versions of packages xserver-xorg-video-radeon suggests: >>>> pn firmware-linux <none> (no description available) >>> >>> Does installing this package and rebooting help for any of your >>> problems? >> >> Thank you very much for your quick reply. I should have looked into the >> logs... >> Installed firmware-linux, and now the 100% CPU issue is gone. >> Unfortunately, the flickering issue (more often on black screens) is still >> present with kms, so for now I'm sticking with having it disabled. > > Try booting with radeon.new_pll=0 and/or radeon.disp_priority=2 on the > kernel command line in grub.
Yup, just did one test: turned modeset on and booted with radeon.new_pll=0 and the flickering is gone. Feel free to ask me anything else you think it might be useful. Best regards, -- Marcos Marado -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlkti=pzhf77ensr9=vy0x0oi4ixsjoji6vxmnhf...@mail.gmail.com
