Re: ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 and iBook G3's

2020-04-20 Thread Steve Burkhart
The irony is that on the i686 side, my Thinkpad T42 features the same GPU, and it works just fine with Debian unstable. On Mon, Apr 20, 2020, 10:35 PM Steve Burkhart wrote: > firnware-amd-graphics is installed when firmware-linux-nonfree is > installed, so yes. > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2020, 10:25 PM

Re: ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 and iBook G3's

2020-04-20 Thread Steve Burkhart
firnware-amd-graphics is installed when firmware-linux-nonfree is installed, so yes. On Mon, Apr 20, 2020, 10:25 PM Michael Cree wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 10:12:10PM -0400, Steve Burkhart wrote: > > While we're on the topic of display driver problems, does anyone know why > > the ATI Rade

Re: ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 and iBook G3's

2020-04-20 Thread Michael Cree
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 10:12:10PM -0400, Steve Burkhart wrote: > While we're on the topic of display driver problems, does anyone know why > the ATI Radeon 7500 found in many iBook G3 models is non functional with > Xorg? After installing the non free firmware, the screen just blinks, and > eventu

ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 and iBook G3's

2020-04-20 Thread Steve Burkhart
While we're on the topic of display driver problems, does anyone know why the ATI Radeon 7500 found in many iBook G3 models is non functional with Xorg? After installing the non free firmware, the screen just blinks, and eventually freezes. I've encountered this problem on 500Mhz, 600MHz, 700MHz, 8