On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 05:13:38PM +0100, Thomas Richter wrote: > Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon > Version: 1:6.9.0-1+lenny4 > Severity: important > > > The xserver radeon package leaves a completely unusable screen on the > Hewlett-Packard "BW-PC"s; since > this is a popular machine ordered in masses by the district of > Baden-Württemberg in Germany for all > public institutions, this renders Debian lenny unusable for a large user > class, including universities > and student pools. > > Problem description is that the vertical frequency of the monitor is > mispredicted - the HP monitor > reports that the card generates a vertical frequency of 90Hz, much too high > for the monitor to follow, > so likely the EDID/DDC data arrives corrupted. > > The graphics driver *did/does* work for OpenSuSE 10.2 in the 6.6.3 kernel > package with one SuSE-specific > patch applied.
Is it better with latest radeon driver, and KMS on a recent kernel? Brice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
