Bug#931901: Ping to Ben Hutchings, identifying possible source of problem

2019-07-15 Thread Kathryn Tolsen
It would appear to my untrained eye, that this commit on May 15, 2018 by Ben Hutchings is responsible for this issue: https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/commit/e7bdd24f189b1b8775665d56a1230f7b12915ffe This appears to be debian specific and not an upstream issue as the upstream code doesn'

Bug#931901: Clarifying this issue, delt with on OFTC in #debian

2019-07-15 Thread Kathryn Tolsen
The R600 /is/ newer than this card.. as R600 was code name for the HD 2000 series in 2007 and this card is an HD 6000 series from 2010 however, the problem seems to be that the buster kernel 4.19 assumes that ALL cards after this R600 in 2007 require firmware, when that doesn't seem to be true in t