On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 14:51:40 +0100, Mathieu Roy wrote: > severity 575226 minor > retitle 575226 firmware-linux-nonfree 0.23 is in conflict with xserver-xorg- > video-radeonhd and should suggest xserver-xorg-video-radeon > thanks
firmware-linux-nonfree has nothing to do with this. > Le mercredi 24 mars 2010, Julien Cristau a écrit : > > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:40:36 +0100, Mathieu Roy wrote: > > > Regarding X, only xserver-xorg-core, xserver-xorg, > > > xserver-xorg-video-radeon was recently upgraded. > > > > The latest xserver-xorg-video-radeon package enables kernel mode > > setting. This is incompatible with the radeonhd X driver. You should > > use the radeon driver instead. > > I did not know that. To me, it seemed like radeonhd driver was the future and > radeon some kind of legacy driver. Apparently, it is not. > Right, radeonhd is dying at this point. > I switched to the radeon driver and now it works (only with the latest > kernel). > > I think it should be documented somewhere. And considering the results of > running firmware-linux-nonfree with xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd (blank > screen), maybe it would be nice to add a conflict against xserver-xorg-video- > radeonhd and a suggest in favor of xserver-xorg-video-radeon. > If nothing else, it will be documented in radeon's NEWS.Debian file (http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-xorg/driver/xserver-xorg-video-ati.git;a=blob;f=debian/xserver-xorg-video-radeon.NEWS), and probably in the release notes for squeeze. Cheers, Julien
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