Bug#931901:

2019-08-22 Thread Joshua Hudson
Adding RV635 to the list of affected cards In this case, the card needs firmware, the firmware is on the disk, but KMS remains disabled.

Bug#931901:

2019-08-22 Thread Joshua Hudson
Adding RV635 to the list of affected cards

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

2019-07-16 Thread Phil Reynolds
On Tue, 16 Jul 2019 00:15:44 +0100 Ben Hutchings wrote: > I suspect that this bug is a duplicate of bug #928510, for which the > fix missed the buster release (but we can fix it in a point release). > If you run "update-initramfs -u" and reboot, does that fix the > problem? Ah, that does indeed

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

2019-07-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Mon, 2019-07-15 at 08:48 -0400, Kathryn Tolsen wrote: > 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/e7bdd24f189b1b8775665d56a1230f7b12915ff

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

Bug#931901: linux-image-4.19.0-5-amd64: incorrectly identifies some old Radeon HD as newer, preventing X from starting

2019-07-12 Thread Phil Reynolds
Package: src:linux Version: 4.19.37-5 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I did a clean install of buster to my Lenovo Thinkpad X131e-AMD, but the kernel thinks the onboard Radeon HD 6310 is a newer card (newer than R600), requiring firmware to support modeswitching (KMS). However, this is incor