On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 01:24:26PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > I notice that this system is using the radeon driver but does not have > the Radeon firmware installed. On older hardware the firmware is only > needed for 3D acceleration, but I suspect that other functions also > depend on it now. (And I've also seen some weird display glitches on a > fairly old Mac when the firmware was not installed.) So, try installing > firmware-linux-nonfree, if it doesn't offend your sensibilities.
As well as upgrading to the new kernel I installed the firmware (since the new kernel prompted for firmware for the video card which hadn't been mentioned previously). Some combination of the two has resolved the issue for me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
