Patrick Kennedy wrote:
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote:
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 05:43:29PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Patrick Kennedy wrote:
In fact, I did recompile my kernel for the "Xorg ATI Driver-7.3.0".
When
the system boots up, you can see a boot message complaining about not
having the fireware for the Radeon video driver. The problem is, the
web
page for Radeon firmware (
http://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/radeon_ucode/)
has names like Aruba and Hawaii, et al.
And I've got a Dell Vostro 3450 that ran Ubuntu when first purchased.
So,
it's hard to know what firmware is required.
Anyways, definitely learning lots with LFS and BLFS. But it should
would
be cool to get X Window up.
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Radeon#Firmware
https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/firmware-linux-nonfree
may be helpful. I didn't see a 6600M though. Try lspci -v for details.
-- Bruce
For me, google suggests it is an HD6630, which is apparently a
hybrid graphic driver. I guess that might mean the server needs
the prime support patch, but that is _only_ a guess.
Based on
https://packages.debian.org/squeeze-backports/firmware-linux-nonfree
I would try the set of TURKS files. Actually, for installing I
would probably try dumping *all* the radeon firmware ins
/usr/lib/firmware, point the kernel to it, and then start by adding
all the TURKS files, build and boot the new kernel, review, and if
necessary repeat with additional or different firmware (depending on
what the dmesg or messages during the boot say). So, do not throw
away the kernel tree between builds, making a small change should be
much faster on an already compiled kernel tree.
ĸen
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Okay, so I downloaded TURKS_mc.bin, TURKS_me.bin, TURKS_pfp.bin, and
TURKS_smc.bin.
I added radeon directory to /lib/firmware, and copied the TURKS files into
/lib/firmware/radeon.
I then tweaked the kernel as follows:
Device Drivers --->
Generic Driver Options --->
-*- Userspace firmware loading support
[*] Include in-kernel firmware blobs in kernel binary
I do not recommend this. Just let the kernel load from /lib/firmware at
boot time. What if you want to upgrade the firmware? You'll have to
rebuild the kernel. That gives you less flexibility.
(radeon/TURKS_mc.bin radeon/TURKS_me.bin radeon/TURKS_pfp.bin
radeon/TURKS_smc.bin)
(/lib/firmware) Firmware blobs root directory
I noticed this:
Device Drivers -->
Graphics Drivers Options -->
[*] Prevent firmware from being built
Soooo, I unchecked this: [ ] Prevent firmware from being built
The point is that you can not build the firmware. You do not have the
source.
-- Bruce
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