notforwarded 690794 retitle 690794 radeon: BARTS: monitor listed as "Unknown", low refresh rate, unless firmware installed severity 690794 wishlist quit
Darxus wrote: > Michel Dänzer wrote: >> Is the firmware-linux-nonfree package installed on Debian Wheezy? > > No, it was not. > > Installing this package appears to have solved my problem, thanks. > > gnome-control-center is no-longer listing my monitor as "Unknown", but > appropriately as "Viewsonic [something]. Thanks, both. Darxus, that leaves a few unanswered questions: * what was the monitor unidentified and flickering when using an NVIDIA card with the nouveau driver? * is there some way to get the EDID and set refresh rate without proprietary microcode on radeon BARTS cards? I'm keeping this open for the latter, as a wishlist since it seems hard. Regards, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
